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Here's an extract from Dominic Garnett's new book that hopes to attract coarse anglers to try fly fishing - and us fly anglers to choose to go after a different species. In my new book, Flyfishing for Coarse Fish, I'm principally trying...
It would be difficult to start this page without at least a passing reference to the weather. As I write this at the end of March and early April there are records tumbling all over the country: warmest temperatures in...
When I'm dreaming about stillwater fly fishing I would generally be drifting along on the Erne or Melvin casting dries at rising fish on a summer evening but there is still something very special...
With the jet stream seemingly locked in place over the UK, there is no sign yet of any real change in the unusually mild winter. In fact, there are some decidedly Spring-like signs already...
Why not try before you buy, was my advice to the guy who called earlier in the season. Personally I think it's a no brainer, when spending hard earned cash on what is an expensive piece of equipment, not to...
Last month my Fin & Fly article gathered together the equipment required to target Pike using fly fishing tactics. Now let's go and find one to catch!VenuesDuring the season many modern day stillwater anglers head out in pursuit...
I'm always slightly amused when talking with fellow anglers during November, as most of them are in a state of mild depression that the game season is pretty much done. It comes...
Bermuda, a twenty mile long green oasis sitting some six hundred odd miles from the United States mainland in the middle of the huge Atlantic Ocean.The first thing you notice once you arrive in Bermuda...
Little things raise a smile... waterlogged wellies, soggy trousers, the pride of a first fish no matter how small, that huge smile . . .That was me, and it still is, although now I'm...
If you are eager to experience the thrill of saltwater fly fishing, but need to build your confidence, then there can be no better introductory species than Pollack. Estuary Bass may also represent a...
Some fish just do it; don't they? Take Sea Trout for example. An elusive, enigmatic species that requires dedicated determination. Catches may not be large and the lows could possibly outweigh the highs... but what highs they are. In my...
Is there anything more quintessentially English than an early summer's day on a Hampshire or Wiltshire chalkstream? I have to say that the west Amesbury stretch of the famous river Avon is some of...
Nothing prepares you for hooking up with a Giant Trevally (GT) on a fly rod on the flats. Go to the gym, practise your casting, tie all the flies you want and learn...
It is a little known fact that the Permit you find in places such as the Florida Keys, Mexico and the Bahamas are not actually the only Permit out there that can be...
By nature I am a saltwater fisherman with an increasingly serious problem for nice shiny lures, modern lure rods and good looking spinning reels, but as a photographer I don't reckon you...
Photographing fishing is so much to do with placing the angler in the location, and on that front I would argue that a wide-angle lens is one of the most important ones that anybody...
I am hectic by nature, and slowing down is something I find extremely hard to do, but the whole trick to targeting Bonefish on the flats is to go slow, open your eyes,...
Welcome to the December edition of Fin & Fly.This month we feature six new articles that focus on both destination and tactical fishing.Henry Gilbey gives his top tips on fishing photography. John Bailey gives an account of...
The excitement on the journey over to southern Ireland was palpable - Nick Hart had just got his hands on one of the brand new Hardy SINTRIX saltwater fly rods. Not...
Consistently big Tigerfish on the fly have been sought for years, and with the recent discovery of the species in some pristine rivers in Tanzania, it has finally become a reality. This is...
We love to think that we are at the forefront of shore fishing in the UK, but when it comes to the out and out heavy duty stuff, we are not even close....
Here at Hardy we really applaud the initiative of National Fishing Month. New comers into angling are the lifeblood of our sport and we really feel that fishing is an important...
One of the real bad boy fish of the oceans, the Jack Crevalle. For the life of me I can never understand why more fly fishermen who fish in saltwaters don't spend some time tracking...
The land of fire and ice. Rivers stuffed full of Atlantic Salmon. Continuous summer daylight. Iceland has one hell of a lot to offer the visiting fly fisherman, but in my ignorance I...
I simply can't think of a more visually impressive landscape within which I have ever been lucky enough to have seen the humble sport of fishing taking place. Fishing is without doubt the...
The further you walk and the more you wade, the more Bass you will catch. Most anglers love talking about rods, reels and lures, but in my mind, one of the most important...
I had heard rumours of a fish known to some as the \"freshwater permit\", and to anybody with any knowledge or experience of the real permit, you will know all about the legendary...
The idea of trying to catch Artic Norway's monster coalfish on the fly came about from a filming trip we did to the tiny island of Rost. This small fishing community sits...
I would bet that most people who fly either to or through Johannesburg in South Africa have no idea whatsoever that within a couple of hours of this sprawling city...
Plenty of big golden dorado at taken at La Zona using lures, and nothing beats taking fish off the surface. Seeing big predators smashing into poppers will always be top...
There is some truly outstanding fishing in the Seychelles, but you can't get away from the fact that fly fishing the flats for Giant Trevally (GT) is what most people make...
Throughout saltwater fly fishing circles, the permit is seen as arguably the ultimate flats fish to target. Incredibly wary, horribly hard fighting, and one of the great fishing prizes. I know some fly fishermen who dedicate virtually their whole angling...