February 21, 2010 – 3:39 pm
When Britain mothballs game shooting for the season, my attentions turn to sport further afield, and to the next season looming on the horizon – a summer of game clays and fishing for trout and salmon.
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Events, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged boar, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, Clays, covey, Fishing, game clays, game shooting, grayling, pointers, quail, Shooting, simulated game
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November 22, 2009 – 5:57 pm
We wrote this blog more than a year ago, but had to hold off sharing it with you for editorial reasons. Now, in the gloomy rain of autumn, it seems appropriate to hark back to summers gone, and dream of the ones to come. As I have observed when trying to justify my attempts to [...]
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Also tagged Anne Voss-, Arundell, bass, bass on the fly, Brown Trout, devon, devonshire, fish, Fishing, fly, fly fishermen, Flyfishing, flyrod, freshwater, mcnab, River, sea bass, Sea Trout, spate, tamar, voss
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September 9, 2009 – 7:00 am
Fortunately, excursions to the Outer Hebrides aren’t made or broken by the weather…for dour folk, the Hebrideans are weather optimists: whatever comes next, it won’t be the same twice. Very like the sport. After grouse, the odd snipe or passing plover, and a whatever the collective noun is for 3 salmonid species, we’d stretched FlyBe’s [...]
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Fishing, golden eagles, grouse, Hebrides, Lewis, loch, midges, mink, mink trapping, outer hebrides, peregrine, plover, pointer, pointers, scottish national heritage, sea eagle, Shooting, snipe, Walked, woodcock
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Way back in the grim castless days of last season when Toby the Pedant suggested we explore the sea trout possibilities of his local waters, it seemed a fabulous idea.
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Posted in Events, Packages
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Also tagged brownie, brownies, devon, fishermen, Fishing, low water, Rivers, Sea Trout, trout pool, water levels, west country, Wild
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With my son in an Irish boarding school, I have taken to haunting Ireland’s rivers and coast in search of perfect sporting opportunities. We’ve bagged two new jaunts based around Dingle Bay in County Kerry: salmon and trout on the lower stretches of the River Caragh and albacore tuna on the fly offshore.
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Also tagged albacore, albacore tuna, Caragh, county kerry, dingle bay, fly, fly fishing, kayak, offshore tuna, salmon, salmon fishing, salmon run, salmon trout, sea bass, Sea Trout, Tobias, tuna fishing
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Orvis has become synonymous with flyfishing, a company passion evident in everything they produce from rods to luggage to clothing. That commitment to the sport extends to training their retail staff.
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Also tagged battenkill, brownies, fish, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, grayling, Manager Philip Nicholson, Matrix, Orvis, rainbow, TLS
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When men are bored, we invent a new sport. When fishermen are bored, we invent new ways to catch familiar fish, or new fish to catch with familiar methods. And so began the quest to catch a barbel on the fly.
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Also tagged barbel, bottom feeders, fishermen, Fishing, fly, Helios, nymph, nymphs, pike, shoal
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The cool, clear waters of the Austrian rivers are fed by snow melt and springs, ideal for the salmonids they contain in diversity.
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Also tagged Arctic, Austria, Austrian, austrians, char, danube, diversity, fishermen, Fishing, fishing packages, grayling, Innsbruck, package, River, Rivers, salmon, taimen
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Having grabbed a few days holiday (ie. scouting trip for future packages), I packed my five weight Frequent Flyer and headed to the Austrian Tirol with my wife.
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Also tagged Austrian, austrian tirol, fish id, Fishing, flies, frequent flyer, Heiterwanger, lake, rainbow, renke, River, river fishing, stream, Tirol, whitefish, Wild, wildlife
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For those of you who are regular readers of my ramblings, you may remember my mate Jon, who responded to my lack of success on the muntjac front (an ongoing sore point) with news of medal-standard success, and photos of Chinese water deer. Well, he’s been at it again.
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Also tagged Chinese water deer, Fishing, Itchen, Muntjac, night, pool, River, river itchen, sea, Sea Trout, sea trout fishing, Stalk, Stalking, tidal pool
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