In For A Penny – By permission: Tim Rolston Inkwazi Flyfishing I like to imagine that I am open to new ideas, suggestions, hypotheses and such, although I must admit at the same time that I am not overly keen to listen to foolish notions without logical backup. So it happens that some months back […]
There’s probably more important things than spending the weekend chilling with your kids, after they’ve grown up and left home – but I can’t think of too many. Despite the time apart over the last few years, my adult son Steve and I still share a few interests, including a love of fishing and camping. […]
It wasn’t the best of starts, really. Here I was, with the bride to be, in the heart of the Scottish highlands, trying to pronounce the Gaelic names of my dad’s Scottish ancestors and getting to know the new Pommie in laws. In a lay bye café en route to Loch Rannoch, we had seen our […]
I’ve a learned a little about fly fishing in the past 20 years, most of it from other men, in groups of two or three. But men in small hunting groups can be driven, self-destructive creatures. After a hard day, pounding the mossy rocks in pursuit of truculent brown trout, we’ll often camp out rough, […]
We had been on the water for a couple of hours, when we ran into two frequent visitors to the Mitta River and – as you do – we asked what flies they were using and if they’d had any luck. “They’re biting on caddis at the moment,” we were told, and shown a small fluffy […]
Picking your fly rods up from the oversize luggage counter is always a bit of a heart in the mouth operation: mainly because you worry your rods have been left behind or sent to Los Angeles or Heathrow, never to be seen again. But they were there alright, in the oversize luggage section at Brisbane […]