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Savage Gear SG4 Medium Game and Savage Gear Pencil lure A mirror calm Loch Etive at sunset is very hard to resist during the summer...

Quick successful evening pollack fishing on the lures

How to tie a UV resin fry / Epoxy Minnow fly

Shore lure fishing for big pollack in argyll

10 days in Sicily, shore jigging and species hunting

Success for the first guided session fly fishing for brown trout

After my trip to Sicily (in the adventures blogs section!), I had a slightly delayed start to the brown trout season in Oban. Connor and...

Everyone has had the days on a stream or hill loch where the fish are feeding and rising, but you just cant see what they are feeding on!...

I have seen a few pike flies recently with a big curly tail. Unboxing the Pacchiarini's wiggle tails After some googling I came across...

Fulling Mill fly popper blanks Foam poppers aren't our most used flies, but I thought it would be good fun to knock some up for Pike...

The Hare’s Ear Nymph  is one of the most effective and versatile flies in fly fishing, designed to imitate a wide range of aquatic...

The Ling  ( Molva molva ) is a long, half eel, half cod-like fish found in Scottish waters. Although it's textbook habitat is deep, rocky...

The classic black pennel fly Few flies in the angler's box carry the timeless appeal of the Black Pennell. This iconic wet fly, designed...

Found in a museum gift shop near you! Soft plastics like the savage gear soft plastic eels have done me very well in the past for pike in...

The small shrimp is a tie we made to fish just under our feet and in gin-clear saltwater where we can watch it skipping just over rocks...

The Klinkhammer on a size 12 curved shank hook One of our go-to flies. With various sizes imitating midges to larger caddis and mayflies,...

A perfect trout to start the year As a first post to get the blog up and running (and set up the links), a quick round up of the...

Just like the trout fishing, we didn't have one blank session, and almost every session produced a personal best pollack! Not bad for a...