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As mentioned in an earlier blog post the recent August edition no. 2 of the FlyMage ezine carried an article of mine all about fishing the famous English mayfly hatch on that doyen of English chalkstreams - the River Test.
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I can’t believe it has been so long since my last blog entry here. Therefore I thought I had better try and catch up a little.
I have managed to get out and about to various places to enjoy the spring weather when it has been nice enough. Perhaps one of the most poignant is a [...]

So the snow and ice that plagued the UK has largely come and gone and even though it was a total pain at times you couldn’t help but notice the beauty of it all, especially on the rare occasion that the sun also made an appearance. What you couldn’t also fail to notice was the usual [...]

Joined forces with Paul Richardson this week of Wychwood Tackle to head down to Avington for some winter rainbow trout fishing for a feature on the Fly Forums website. No point in rewriting the same story so here’s a link.
I did want to share a few more photos though……

A walk in the woods near High Beeches in Sussex this October morning turned into an unexpected sweet chestnut gathering and mycological photographic trip.
Leaving the piles of freshly fallen nuts closer to the car park for the squirels who were running around actively hording supplies, we went down one of the paths into the woods [...]