Learn to Fly Fish Blog

As a fly fishing addict and eternal optimist I always welcome the start of a new Salmon Fishing Season in Scotland, it brings lots of excitement, questions and preparation. Of course I am always a believer that this season there will be more Spring Salmon running than last year and we look at the conditions and try to predict where will be the best place to catch that first springer of the year and also what conditions may the river be in. 

Fly fishing is a mesmerizing art that requires skill, precision, and adaptability. Anglers constantly face challenges such as limited casting space and tricky wind conditions. To overcome these hurdles, fly fishing enthusiasts developed various casting techniques over the years. One such techniq...

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.

The river Åelva is Norways famous "secret river" Running through pristine wilderness, it is home to incredible wildlife – and most importantly – abundant runs of large Atlantic Salmon. A lesser known river due to the private access over the last century only now are anglers getting the opportuni...