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Opening Day 2007

HI John , My brother and I fished around Whitfield hatches today having a great day in the process, much better than last year. The river looked superb, clean with lots of the right type of weed, the wind abated throughout the day so that come tea time it wasn’t a hampering factor, using aftm …

Flies for Spring

Another very wet Sunday and a few ideas for your fly box. First on my list is of course the GRHE, these are excellent and can be used to represent the early hatching olives. GRHE Then a few grannom patterns will be needed for the end of April when the hatches are at there best. …

River Up & Coloured

The River is up & very coloured and with todays rain, it doesn’t look good for tomorrow either. Time to tie some flies; Over the Christmas holidays I was lucky enough to fish a stretch of the River Wylye and this little pink number was a great success. To help get this fly down to …

A Wonderful Morning

A Saturday with blue sky, sun and no wind; I just had to go fishing! Here’s a photograph of blue sky if you had forgotten what it looks like! Blue Sky! Fished around Grey’s Bridge and 10 Hatches; the river was in tip top condition, almost as perfect as the weather; plus there were even …

Wet Sunday

I was due to walk a stretch of the coastal path today but the unexpected rain put a halt to that. There was no wind and this was the sort of rain I enjoy fishing in, so I put on my waterproofs and headed to the river. I fished the Middle Water and as I …

Bank Holiday Monday

Conditions are excellent today and the river is clearing nicely. Expect the hatch to start around 13:00, but before then a well placed imitation will bring the trout to surface. The weather forecast is a mixture of sunshine and showers, but nothing that will effect the fishing..Mayfly pattern that’s doing well for me this season

Old Favourites

Gold Ribbed Hares Ear Hook: 16 Tiemco TMC 900BL Tail/Body: Hares Ear Thorax: Hares Ear Rib: Holographic Tinsel It must be a good fly as it was an Odgen Smith GRHE with duck split wing that caught a 12 3/4lb brown just below Grey’s Bridge in 1907. Read The Rev’s account Tying a GRHE from …

GRHE

Odgen Smith GRHE Why the Gold Ribbed Hares Ear? It all started after a chance meeting with a former Honorary Secretary of the Dorchester Fishing Club, Lt Cdr D.B.Jeffery. We met while fishing the Club’s water and talked about its long history. He wondered if I would be interested in seeing a photograph that he …