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Bewl Reservoir from waspbuster 6 days old

[ ... ] the fish were on the fry, so larger types of fly were the order of the day. We set our rods, lines and flies before getting on the boat. By the ...

Fishing Again at Last from waspbuster 21 days old

[ ... ] of fish rising. Shortly after, the young lad walked round to my end and started fishing close by. Suddenly there there was a big shout “Grandad ...

A Prize from waspbuster 27 days old

Ernie and I went off to the second meeting of the of the Surrey Fly Dressers Guild, this year at Effingham Golf Club. There was an excellent talk by ...

Easter Monday from waspbuster 211 days old

[ ... ] The fish unfortunately did not take it, this happened several times. I then swapped to the fly second from the left. This one is made purely from ...

Last Fishing Tickets from waspbuster 221 days old

Last Saturday I went off to Vale End, Albury to finish my fish tickets as they ran out at the end of the month. There were only a couple of people ...

Late Afternoon Disaster from waspbuster 248 days old

[ ... ] (the fish) had gone lower. He had caught on (from what he described) a Blue Flash Damsel. I started on one of my Terry's Terror and my new sink ...

The Spring Fly Fishing Show from waspbuster 255 days old

A group of us from the Surrey Fly Dressers Guild went to the Spring Fly Fishing Show, at Newark yesterday, leaving in a mini bus from Woking, at about ...

Vale End from waspbuster 269 days old

[ ... ] the fish was on. About 2½LBs. I flattened the barb and two more casts and I had another one in the net. I know it shouldn't be done here but it ...

Fly Tying Classes from waspbuster 288 days old

Classes started three weeks ago at Esher College, once again. This year we have a new lecturer Chris Reeves (www.fishingclass.co.uk). I have been looking ...

John Goddard Trophy 2008 from waspbuster 329 days old

[ ... ] to fish with just my home made flies. I had one or two little nibbles but no positive takes and tried a couple of flies. So I moved to the big ...