The Club Grayling fishing trip to Wales on 25 October was attended by Keith Allison; Bob Ayres; Geoff Darby; John Goldie; Martin James; John Poote and Bob Sharp. The Hotel Cammarch, our base has three miles of fishing rights on the River Irfon, split into three beats, upper middle and lower. It is a tributary of the River Wye. For those of us who had limited their fishing to the manicured Chalk streams  of the south would find a different type of river – a freestone river.We had arranged [...]

13th October 2021It’s that time of year again at Grafham, when I dug out all those shrimp patterns tied during lockdown, took a floating line a good pair of waders and headed off to do a bit of bank fishing.It was a perfect morning , the only slight disadvantage was the westerly wind but at 8 mph this was manageable whilst fishing off my favourite bank G marker near G buoy. Approaching the water with a 15 foot leader, a  Tequila FAB on the point and to start [...]

RAVENSTHORPE – 9 April 2021This was Bob Ayres and my first fishing outing of the year, along with friends Phill and Andy. Thankfully we all decided to avoid an early start and arrived around 09.00 to find only four boats already on the water and a light breeze blowing towards the Dam.Encouraged by a modest midge hatch, we anchored about 70 m from the far bank and 200m from the dam. Our set up, a long leader and three black buzzers and Bob A, a blob and buzzers. On [...]

An IntroductionDuring the gloom of the last year’s lockdown, I set out to rationalise my fishing kit. The first job was the 15 or so fly boxes I had dotted around my work room, the second was to get shot of some of the stuff I had accumulated over the years and superseded with new kit and the third a resolution to be tidier and not hoard what Lyn referred to as junk, and, only buy new stuff that was essential!      For many of us, fishing kit [...]

March 29 2021Keith Allison and John Poote – John Goldie and Peter Aldridge

At long last we were allowed to get on the water and boat fish. John P had fished off the bank a couple of times earlier in March. He had to cast a long line to cover any fish and had caught one or two. However boat fishing will give an advantage to get over the fish.The weather was kind with a S Westerly approx 14mph, cloudy in the morning and sunny spells.in the afternoon.The house martins [...]