After one of the mildest (so far) winters on record and the lifting of most Covid restrictions, 2022 is shaping up to be, thankfully, something more normal. TROUT LAKES: Here at the farm, the mild winter has given me the chance to build a new teaching platform, do a full winter weed cut and clear […]
Archive | International Rivers
Iceland East Ranga 4th – 8th July 2021
A CAST AT LAST!!! 2 years from my last overseas salmon fishing trip which was East Ranga 2019, packing the gear seemed almost surreal. Jumping the various Covid Grand National fences nearly had one faller before we got off the ground. Android phones don’t like Luton Airport. Nor do I for that matter but with […]
Christopher Robinson
It is with great sadness that I learned yesterday of the death of Christopher Robinson. He had apparently been being treated for Cancer for the past few months. Christopher was the founding partner of Roxton Bailey Robinson, now Roxtons, with whom I have taken fly fishers all over the world for over 26 years. I […]
Coronavirus update 7th April 2020: Post and Russia
I do hope you are all keeping safe and well in this dreadful time. Giving you the latest updates on my various activities, I must sadly say our Russia trip for the end of May is now cancelled along with the rest of the program on the Varzuga for 2020. Whilst this is of course […]
Coronavirus update 16th March
Although I am following the national news on a daily basis, as no doubt are you, I am still intending to run my courses at the farm, my Scottish courses and fishing and international trips as scheduled. I think we are all a lot safer out fishing than just about anywhere else!
East Ranga, Iceland. 3 days fishing July 2019 Report
The brief was to go out much earlier than my traditional Iceland trip to find fewer grilse but meet up with some of the bigger fish that are often getting stale by August. And East Ranga delivered. The fishing was not easy, cold water, heavy tips and heavy flies and casting skills to match required, […]
East Ranga, Iceland 11th July 2019
Yesterday afternoon saw some serious action in the big fish dept. Norman G got a 20+ pounder on beat 5 and David H lost a huge fish on beat 1. 5 fish in all for the group and just one was a Grilse. This morning Cecil D lost a fish of 18lbs or so at […]
East Ranga, Iceland 10th July 2019
Very strange afternoon yesterday. It clouded over after lunch and we thought we would be in business and yet at close of play no one had caught a single fish other than on beat 1 (not guys from our team) which produced 6. This morning was also hard going but Cecil and I winkled one […]
East Ranga, Iceland 9th July 2019
We arrived yesterday afternoon to fish the evening session. Much earlier than our usual Iceland trip so not expecting large numbers of Grilse, but more the bigger fish. And we were not disappointed bringing in 10 fish for our group of 8 rods in the first session with several in the 10 – 15lb class […]
Varzuga 18th – 25th May 2019
A lot of wows but what a week we had!!! We arrived on the 18th at Lower Sabacchi, with the pyramid stone about 6 inches under water and the ice all gone in the previous few days. It just doesn’t get better to find those conditions for our week. This year 25 years since I […]