Monthly Roundup

     Hello everyone , Well Winter has begun and with it some windy and some wet weather days and cool if not cold days.

        My apologies that it has been a few months since I last wrote anything on this page but with competitions and my wife deciding that the downstairs needed one last overhaul in decorating plus deciding we needed to modernise the brown furniture I have been pretty hectic rubbing down the skirting boards, arcitraves and all the cabinets and display units, getting in a chap to do the ceilings and walls, changing some of the electrics and getting a new carpet I have been busy. Fortunately, it's hopefully the last time for such a big project before we push up the daiseys.

     The lakes have now been re-stocked and fishing at my syndicate water at Great Leighs and at Chigborough has been good. The clients I put off in the hot months have returned and we can once again catch fish. I still  teach the theory side of fly fishing in regards to entomology, climate, habitates, artificial flies, knots, ancilliary equipment, tackle and casting techniques but we can again put a fly on the water with a chance of taking a fish or two but there is so much to learn with fly fishing that a day spent just on the theory is no bad thing as a prelude to actually fishing.

      I have had two visits to Scotland this year, in June I was fishing an International in Ayrshire on the River Ayr and unlike down south it was freezing I was only a reserve/official but on day 1 had as many fish as the two England squads combined with 4 measureable trout and grayling. In May I was at the Lake of Menteith at a National and was representing my Region. It was blowing a "hooley" but found some shelter and caught a few but not enough to get a placing.

    Tight Lines everyone.          

 Iain Fraser. AT Angling Lead Coach, License Number 1274.