Species
Know the fish first. How each quarry lives, feeds and takes, and what that means at the water.
Perch on the Fly
The predator hiding under your local pontoon — micro Clousers, balanced leeches and mini muddlers. Three lanes, ten patterns, year-round fish.
What is fishing well: species
Last Chance Salmon: Reading the Autumn Spate
Why the back-end salmon take on the falling river, not the rising one — and how to read the gauge, the colour and the cold.
Fish the fall. Weak tea.
Winter Pike on the Fly
What the evidence says about pike and weather, where pike lie in cold water, the slow deep retrieve, who sets the seasons, and how to put a pike back in good order.
Fresh water beats weather. Cold is no bar. Dusk, a slow fly, a wire trace every time.
Grayling
The fish that saves winter — rising to tiny dries in December while everything else sleeps.
Delayed strike. Count "one", then lift.
Salmon: The Long Decline
From Victorian excess to Megan Boyd's minimalism to the conservation crisis that now defines the pursuit.
Victorian excess → Boyd minimalism → modern tubes
Marble Trout
The Soča's ancient predator — a trout that looks like it was painted by someone who'd never seen one and had to guess.
Streamers for big fish. Euro nymph for numbers.
Atlantic Salmon
A fish that does not feed, yet takes a fly. The swing, the take, and the discipline to do neither too much nor too little.
Cast 45° across. Don't strike — lift to 11 o'clock.
The swing, the spate and the code that goes with them.
Atlantic Salmon
A fish that does not feed, yet takes a fly. The swing, the take, and the discipline to do neither too much nor too little.
Last Chance Salmon: Reading the Autumn Spate
Why the back-end salmon take on the falling river, not the rising one — and how to read the gauge, the colour and the cold.
Fish the fall. Weak tea.
Salmon: The Long Decline
From Victorian excess to Megan Boyd's minimalism to the conservation crisis that now defines the pursuit.
Victorian excess → Boyd minimalism → modern tubes
Leave the Redds Alone
How to recognise a redd, why wading destroys the next generation, and what to do instead.
Pale, cleaned gravel. Mainly Nov–Jan.
Marble trout, grayling, stocked fish and the huchen.
Grayling
The fish that saves winter — rising to tiny dries in December while everything else sleeps.
Marble Trout
The Soča's ancient predator — a trout that looks like it was painted by someone who'd never seen one and had to guess.
Streamers for big fish. Euro nymph for numbers.
Stocked Trout Variants
Blue, golden, tiger, spartic, brook, and triploid browns — identification, tactics, and venue guide for stocked trout on UK and European stillwaters.
Blue/golden: rainbow tactics. Tiger/brook/spartic/triploid: structure, pulled flies.
Hucho (Danube Salmon)
Europe's largest freshwater salmonid — biology, distribution, streamer tactics, and conservation across the western Balkans and upper Danube.
Streamer, 8–14°C, falling water, autumn–winter.
Chub, barbel, perch and pike on the fly.
Coarse Fish on the Fly
Chub, perch, carp, pike — the same entomology, closer water, and fights that make you reconsider your tackle.
Chub on the Fly
Foam beetles under alders, big dries down the streamy glides, small streamers when the river drops — coarse on the fly with the most willing target there is.
Foam beetle under cover. Big dry on the glide. 5–6wt.
Barbel on the Fly
Sight-fishing on crystal Spanish rivers — a foam beetle upstream of a tailing fish, and then the kind of run that tests your backing knot.
Foam beetle ahead of tailing fish. 5wt for haasi.
Perch on the Fly
The predator hiding under your local pontoon — micro Clousers, balanced leeches and mini muddlers. Three lanes, ten patterns, year-round fish.
Micro Clouser, strip-pause, tight to structure. 5wt, barbless.
Winter Pike on the Fly
What the evidence says about pike and weather, where pike lie in cold water, the slow deep retrieve, who sets the seasons, and how to put a pike back in good order.
Fresh water beats weather. Cold is no bar. Dusk, a slow fly, a wire trace every time.
