CASTING LESSONS ARE A GREAT WAY TO START FLYFISHING.
We were all in the shop one morning recently and one of the boys was getting ready for a customer who was about to come in for a casting lesson. As is the norm, the imminent arrival of a customer is preceded by the ...
Searching for Kings in the far south of Chilean Patagonia on our latest hosted trip in January 2018 with Magallanes Fly Fishing. Big rivers, high winds and big Chinook salmon.
LOOP team and Ghillie Craig Macdonald talks us through his favourite set-ups and how to fish them on his beat Waterside & Ferrar on the Upper River Dee.
Edwin Third Talks us through the latest habitat improvement on the River Dee.
Fly fishing for king salmon in Chile is an amazing experience I can whole-heartedly recommend to anyone that enjoys fishing in absolute pristine nature. In December Al Peake from Twin Peaks Fly Fishing and myself had the opportunity to fish the Rio Serrano in Southern Patagonia with Rafael Gonzá...
The Land Of Hope showcases superb Atlantic salmon and brown trout fishing in the wilderness of northern Scotland and is part of the Wildland Limited enterprise.
Located in Sutherland under the shadow of Ben Hope, the system begins high up in the glens and drains into the iconic Loch Hope. The s...
Jockfall is on the mighty Kalix river and is located in Swedish Lapland, its famous amongst salmon anglers as being a premier destination for targeting large Baltic salmon and home to one of the best salmon pools in Europe.
I joined team some LOOP team members Euan Miller and Eoin Fairgrieve to...
February 2019, three amigos had the opportunity to venture to the Rio Irigoyen in the South East of Tierra del Fuego in Southern Patagonia. This river is truly a special place with excellent sea trout fishing surrounded by a pristine tree-lined wilderness.
We were fortunate to have been invited...
We were fortunate to join the Deveron, Bogie & Isla Rivers Charitable Trust on their Trout monitoring project. Each year the team head into the upper catchment and electro fish for a sample of large brown trout and record their size, weight, and take scale samples.
The team are now tagging a...
This short video filmed with the pike guru Stuart Sutherland for FISH X shows some of the awesome pike fishing on the fly Scotland has to offer. Filmed at the lake of Menteith if you would like to give Pike on the fly a go get in touch.
In the past, the decaying carcasses of 100’s of adult salmon would fertilise the stream and create an environment which boosted the growth of young fish. Streams that lack dead adult salmon have fewer insects (less ‘fish food’), so that the surviving fish fry are smaller and from fewer parents. ...
The Improved homer Rhodes knot is one we have trusted for the last few years for big chinook salmon in Chile. A super strong knot to fish the hook on a loop.
Scott De Buyen first showed us this knot first on the Arroy in Norway and he has trusted it for years in the saltwater scene and large Nor...