November

Well its been a good month so far and i cant complain. Start of the month was god as fish the welsh still water trial to represent my country in the international stillwater competition.
They day started with a bang for me as the first peg i drew saw me land 4 fish in just as many cast so i was off to a good start 3 fell to a white humungus and the forth came to a bloodworm pattern that was given to me my fishing pal Dai Jones oneme fish and i would have caught my limit on the first peg.
Than the day gradually got worse and worse and the fishing dried up a little with very little fish being caught i couldnt wait for the half time interval.
The afternoon session sarted as i ended the first and blanked on the first two pegs. The next peg i was on was one of my boogie pegs and i really dont like to fish alot but i could see a few  fish feeding in the margins so i tied on one of my spider patterns that  have been catching me alot of fish lately and low on behold fir cast as the fly was dropping through the water a cracking brownie came and took it so my long wait had been worth it.
after i landed the fish and it was measured i could see that there were a few rainbows hanging around so i targeted a few but there was no interest so i chucked the line out to reel in as as the fly hit the water BANG some dull rainbow took it.
Landed the fish measured it and the klaxon sounded to move pegs so on to the last peg and i was getting a little nervous at this time. The Marshall that was controlling that peg was a chap called Malcolm  Edwards
great guy and a few words of wisdom and i was off BUT no fish on the peg.NERVOUS
So we all handed or score cards in and waited for the results. Hywel Morgan read out the results and I could not believe it when he called out my name first as i didnt expect to get in to the team let alone Win the trial so as you can imagine i was over the moon
Here is a photo of the New 2014 WELSH INTERNATIONAL BANK TEAM and a photo of the fly that saved the day.

DIAWL BACH PROJECT 2013

Its been a while since I last blogged. Over the last few weeks I have been up to my eyeballs in work and my mam and dad have been renovating their house so I have been helping out up there, BUT I have still been out fishing on the weekend as much as I possibly can and still making time to tie some flies.
I will admit that I have been stuggling to think of things to blog about and want to keep it as fresh as possible. Being relatively new to this whole blogging thing I have realised that other bloggers that I follow pic themes and challenges. I on the other hand do not know wot to themes or projects to pick.
So what I am going to do is pick a simple project to start off with and go from there.
Now we all now of the legendary fly that is called the Diawl Bach im sure every angler has used one at some point in his life as this is a trusted and proven pattern in all types of water and in many country's.
What I have decided to do is to tie up a few different variant's and try them on the water's that I fish. and see which one does the best and keep a record of it. I am also going to try and do a step by step tying of a the Famous pattern for all to see. Now I know there is nothing special about the tying of a Diawl Bach and there are probally hundreds of step by steps out there but I think its nessary for this little project.
This project or challenge that I have decided to take on may not be to everyone's liking but I imagine there are many people out there who like myself along time ago who have never fished anything other than lure's and I am not saying that everyone who fish lure's are in the wrong and I like nothing more than to put one of my trusted go to lures on have the trout smash and them to bits.
I just think that New fly fisher man should be given the information that allows them to fish different styles and method's of fly fishing as there are so many to utilise.
I am going to do this project/challenge starting from today and have all ready tied up a few Diawl's which I will be giving a swim at garnfrwd trout fishery on sunday where I am fishing a fundraiser competition which Is being held to help raise money foe the 2013 International Welsh Bank Team
who are representing Wales in the international competition that is being held in Scotland in October.

So here is a little taster of what is to come 

 The first pic Is of a Diawl Bach that I have been using for a bit and has caught me a few trout and the difference with this pattern is I have used Coq De Leon for the tail and throat hackle which I think gives it a nice little edge. And the second one is fresh of the vice and something completely different to normal its a Diawl Bach using the Cats whisker colour's green white and red.