Start eating your carrots: some of the best fishing to be had in the summer months takes place after dark. Sea trout, the peripatetic siblings of the brown trout, return to the streams of their birth to spawn in the summer months.
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Also tagged bass, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, droppers, fish, Fishing, Hampshire, Howard Day, Itchen, Rivers, salmon, Sea Trout, Southern Counties, stream, Test, wader, weight rods
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Obsession is an ugly thing…even when it takes you to some of the most beautiful fishing spots around the globe.
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Posted in Fishing
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Dorset, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, Frome, grayling, Howard Day, mayfly, Orvis, River, Toby
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It’s been a funny kind of year for flies: almost no hawthorne, and straight into the mayfly hatch. Despite a stiff breeze, the mayfly started hatching about lunchtime on Tuesday, and trout took immediate notice.
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Also tagged Brown Trout, fly, Flyfishing, Howard Day, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, novices, Orvis, Rivers, Test
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Game clays offer corporate institutions the opportunity to swap the confines of an office meeting for rural vistas and salty banter.
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Driven Shooting, Events, Packages
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Also tagged Clay Entertainment, clay pigeon, Clays, Corporate, Driven, Game, game clays, Howard Day, individuals, novices, Shooting, simulated game, Southern Counties, sport, teams
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It’s always rewarding to introduce someone to a new passion and pastime. This week we watched as builder extraordinare and all-round superhero Lee dipped his toe into the flyfishing pool by taking an evening lesson with me.
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Also tagged Adventures, angler, British, Country, fish, Fishing, Game, Howard Day, instruction, Orvis, Rivers, sport, stream, Test, Trout. rainbow trout
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Whilst I continue my personal quest to bag my first muntjac, the empathy from my fellow stalkers has been astounding.
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Family-friendly Meon Springs provided the perfect setting for Orvis’ Cast and Blast, and the powers that be provided unbelievable weather despite the best efforts of the meteorologists to convice us otherwise.
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Posted in Events, Fishing
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Also tagged bass, blog, Britain, British, Brown Trout, fish, Fishing, Howard Day, instruction, Itchen, largemouth, novices, Orvis, photography, Press, rainbow trout, Rivers, riverside, salmon, Shoot, sport, sportspeople, stream, Test, Texas, trout
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Over a beer or three in Texas, I confessed to headkeeper Martin Broad that I’d never shot Britain’s smallest deer, the non-native Muntjac.
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Posted in Stalking
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Also tagged blog, Country, Fallow, Howard Day, Hunting, Muntjac, quarry, Red, Roe, Sika, sport, Stalking, Texas
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Orvis hosted its annual Open Day on the River Test at Kimbridge.
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Also tagged accommodation, bass, Fishing, freshwater, Howard Day, individuals, instruction, largemouth, novices, Orvis, Press, Rivers, Southern Counties, sport, stream, Test, Texas, USA, wilderness
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Despite the perception of Texas being populated by longhorn cattle, cowboys and cacti, when we arrived East Texas was just drying out from a flood. Ranch manager cum wildlife biologist Zach Willeford and Mike, a Texas Parks and Wildlife ranger, awaited us with weapons at the ready.
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Posted in Packages, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged Adventures, British, fly, gun, highseat, Howard Day, largemouth, Press, quail, Safari, Shooting, Sporting, Stalk, Texas, turkey, USA, Walked-up, woodland
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