Flies & Patterns

You know what the worst part about making a proper cock-up on the river is? It’s not the lost fish or the snapped tippet. It’s that moment when you realise you’ve been doing something fundamentally wrong for months, maybe years, and nobody bothered to tell you. Or worse, you just never noticed because you were […]

Right, let’s get straight into it because this question comes up at the river more than any other. Can fish actually see your leader? The short answer is yes, absolutely they can. But like most things in fly fishing, that’s only half the story. I spent years thinking that fish had roughly the same eyesight

You know that moment when you’re standing in the middle of the Test or the Usk, squinting at the surface trying to work out if that’s a rise or just a bit of leaf litter? Yeah, I’ve been there more times than I care to admit. Spent the best part of an afternoon last May