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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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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 [...]

Took a walk up alongside Ditchling Beacon today to enjoy some Autumnal sunshine while it was out. On the hunt for more fungi but came up empty on that front. I seem to remember another path up the downs further along Underhill Lane used to be quite good but will have to try and refind [...]

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 [...]

This season I had the very good fortune to join a small group of dedicated fly fishers who have created a little oasis of stream fishing in the heart of the Sussex weald. Although there a few pockets of small wild brown trout in the headwaters of the counties rivers such as the Rother, Ouse, Adur [...]