The Airflo Story

The Airflo Story is one of my favorite fishing videos of 2013! I've always been interested in how fly lines are made and this video has cleared a few things up. Have a watch and see for yourself.

Garnfrwdd Sunday 7th April 2013

Visited Garnfrwdd again today and when we arrived it looked like it was going to be a good day. We had all agreed that today was gona be a pleasure day and not fish our league. the morning was good nice weather a little breeze and fish were coming to the net. I told myself last night that I was gona try different methods as im feed up of pulling lures although I love lure fishing it has started to become a little boring and I need to perfect my skills in the different methods. After looking at the Garnfrwdd facebook page the other night (checking out a photo of a big brown that was caught) I looked at the fishery reports and I could see that people have been having some good top of the water action, and the olives have sarted to hatch. So my next mission was to tie some olive dry flies so I looked on google and the blogs that i follow i found a few patterns I like but the one I liked was form terry (taffdiaries.wordpress.com) it was actually an olive cdc emerger pattern so I knocked a few up ready for our trip today and low and behold the little buggers caught a few fish today. Me Dai Alan and sprog managed to land over 50 fish between us today don't really know the exact number but we all had a good day. There was also a monster rainbow landed today if I had to guess how heavy it was I would say around 17/18lb and I think that is a garnfrwdd rainbow record. It goes to show how healthy the lake is supporting all these big fish. I think I had around 14/15 fish today and they were spread out all over the lake some on buzzers some on dries and some on the nymphs and I caught on maybe two on the lure. I know I know I did say that I was gona try and not use lues today but I couldn't help myself. Here are the patterns that caught.

MY BUZZERS ADDICTION

Since I started fishing when I was in my early teens things have changed dramatically everything from tackle right through to the tying materials and methods. Since I got back into fishing a couple of years ago after a number of years off I could not believe how much they have actually change. Over the years gone by I have always tied all my flies and one type of fly that has become very popular with the trout angler is the buzzer pattern. Now that is one area which I have struggled to get on with Since I got back into fishing ive started to fish the buzzer a lot and Ive always bought them and knew that I had to improve my tying skills and knuckle down and tie them myself. Now when I started to fish the buzzers I always found it hard to find a good supplier of quality home tied buzzers UNTIL I stumbled across a fella selling them on EBAY. Now Kahn has become a friend of mine and we have a chat now and again and keep in touch as often as we can. So if like me you cant tie buzzers and you want quality then this is the guy you should try out and I can tell you now that you wont be disappointed as I have caught loads of fish on his flies. Seeing the quality of kahns buzzers has really spured me on into tying my own. The first attempts I have to say where shocking and they didn't even get a coat of varnish they were cut up straight away, But after a few more attempts I was starting to get the hang of them. Here are a few of mine and Khans buzzers The first 4 pictures are the ones I have tied over the last couple of days and the last 3 are from Kahn.

Garnfrwdd Sunday 17th March

U.R.A.A second stock of the season

 

This morning was the second stocking of the U.R.A.A water the Llyn Fawr.

It was a bitter start to the day with a light dusting of snow on the mountain. I wasn't happy as it was my turn to go in the stock pond at net the fish. We put 250 rainbows in this morning at 10:00am.

I think this season is kicking off to a good start as the fish are fighting fit and haven't over wintered to much, also there was a bit of good news this week as there are 16 new members joined the club some new and so0me who have fished the Llyn fawr in previous years.

The U.R.A.A offer great value for money as a day ticket for the Llyn is just £10 pounds for a 4 fish bag and a season ticket is just £110 which allows you to fish from the 3rd or March through till th e 15th of November

So if you fancy a day ticket either leave a comment with you email address and I will contact you or you can vist our fish farm and they can issue day tickets from there.

If you fancy becoming a member of the U.R.A.A then leave your email address on this post and I will contact you and give you guidance on how to do this. 

Dragon Tackle at Gary Evans salmon open day

DRAGON TACKLE INTERNATIONAL

 

Dragon tackle will also be at the Gary Evans Salmon Casting day 16th of April

Dragon tackle will have a display stand there

selling a whole range of Salmon and Sewin flies

including the great stand alone traditional patterns

right through to the modern tyings.

 

Gary Evans Open Day

 

Come along it will be a good day out