Becks and Brown Trout and Grayling too.

This year has been long dry , hot and certainly has made fishing for trout on my wonderful north Yorkshire streams challenging and to be honest with low levels and doubtful oxygen levels really i think they are better left alone .

Strange part of the year .

It was my birthday the other day and tbh as birthdays go it was pretty good .

I retired just over a month ago .

To say the least, It will be interesting to see what this year brings .

Happy Christmas Everybody I am wishing you all tight lines , big fish , pristine waters , serenity ,and the magic of the season .

I know I am letting the blog drift but i thought an end of season update was in order.

Over the last couple of years the whole social media thing Has lost its shine for me so apart from the odd grip and grin on FB and the silly sense of humour posts that`s it .

Last season this upland stream was new to me , it was great to fish during those first few weeks when the high waters everywhere meant that this little stream was still fishable due to its pocket water nature and you could always find fish , moving on twe…

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As is usual in the darkest bit of winter one spends more time on t inter web , In this last few weeks of winter shitty wet days and dark nights I have spent many an hour mindlessly scrolling through various forums and I marvel at the nonsense spouted by t…

Blimey 2025!

Well that`s it them , 2024 done and dusted .

Testament of a Fisherman "I fish because I love to.

It really has been a strange sort of a year .

So my last post used a racing analogy .

Well as far as fishing summers go I think that to use a racing term 2024 is one to put down as an also ran.

After pretty much a lifetime of fishing and being a fly fisherman for 54 years now I have learned a bit about fly fishing , mainly I have learned that I really don’t know that much at all.

One of my favourite Artists from the 70s was Ian Drury and the blockheads .And after a long driving session a few days ago when I explored my Spotify library that song has been in my head .

I picked this rod up at the Grayling Society Auction at the last Symposium.

A blog I have followed for years is a Hippo on the lawn a recent comment on my blog shows two things , First it tells me Tom the writer was ill and the poor bugger is so confined that he has nothing better to do than comment on this fellow bloggers posting

It has been by all accounts and also by some considerable margin.

I have just read that the above fishery is going under new management , Great news its somewhere that I have fished in the past but my recent enquiry about it a few months ago was responded to in a pretty actually very unhelpful manner , So the news is we…

This year I am starting the process of getting into retirement.

Monday 8th January I had a walk from the office this lunch time.