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Pints, pies and flies.

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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bruno, clerkenwell, fly, green, guy, kings, lessons, london, pub, super, three, tying, vincent

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Huddled around three Anglepoise lamps five students gathered under the guidance from Bruno Vincent AKA Super Fly Guy. The Three Kings pub is our meeting place, tucked away on Clerkenwell Green,  pleasantly quiet, the perfect setting for some focused concentration. In a room above the main bar we sat around a dinning table and discovered some of the techniques from master fly tyer Bruno, while supping a few pints and chomping through scotch eggs and pork pies. Considering three of us were complete beginners the results were quite astonishing, buzzers, cascades and broadswords patterns…

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If you want to see Bruno’s freestyle and traditional work or ask about these evenings please drop Super Fly Guy an email bruno@superflyguy.biz.

http://superflyguy.biz

Ghosts of Farlows.

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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andrews, arcadia, club, Farlows, fishing, fly, history, john, knott, london, Mall, pall, wilton

Farlows of Pall Mall took on a slightly different mood yesterday as John Andrews of Arcadia and John Knott, author of the recently published ‘The History of Wilton Fishing Club’, both greeted visitors to No 9 Pall Mall, London.

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Fishing tackle shops for me have become a lost world that only conjures up memories of childhood, sadly all the ones with character have nearly all but gone. I have mixed emotions about Farlows now, when I first moved to London in the early nineties Farlows was still an exciting place to visit, situated on the corner of Burlington Arcade and Piccadilly, a small packed shop full of tackle, a place of questions and discovery. From what I can recall the staff were generally elderly and extremely polite, even to a young rascal like myself who insisted on handling the large aray of Hardy rods and reels. I of course had no intention in buying but they knew that so with a little guilt I would purchase the odd nymph or dry-fly.

At that time there were still a few good local tackle shops surviving around London but the only other ‘premier’ tackle shop based in central London was Hardys (coincidentally in Pall Mall), this place seemed very upmarket to me and quite intimidating with its dark suited staff in comparison to the more friendlier and informal Farlows.

Farlows holds on in 2013 with speculation of buy-outs from afar but throughout the day a little soul was given back to Farlows as tea was poured and a hand of Happy Families was played across the counter.



Fishing tackle boxes part three – The spring clip fly box by Malloch’s.

07 Wednesday Dec 2011

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aluminium, black, box, fly, japanned, malloch's, small

With the trout season now put to bed for the winter your fly boxes should be cleared out, properly dried and stored away from moths for the next few months. Here we have a natty little Malloch’s fly box suitable for a selection of small dry flies or nymphs.

The spring clip fly box can be a fiddle to use compared to modern foam versions but on special occasions when a small fly box is required that fits into your shirt pocket, this is ideal when stealing  a quick hour or two on a small stream in the summer months. Measuring just 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches this little fly box is perfect! A small box, for small flies, for delicate presentation.

Fly fishing in Leonard Street, EC2!

07 Friday Oct 2011

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edge, fashion, fish, fisherman, fishing, fly, hard, london, steve, work

For ten years the tuesday swim lived in Leonard Street, EC2 living the life of a young hipster/fashion photographer but never once considered casting a fly until now!

Now retired to the leafy land known as Victoria Park I shall tie an appropriate fly and take a chauffeured trip to the city.

Coming soon, another fly fishing tip from Steve Edge, next time in the vale of Mile End Park.

If you wish to don the river bank dressed appropriately then these guys maybe able to help you out…www.workhardfishhard.com 

Jack Hargreaves, dry fly fishing on the Wiltshire Nadder.

17 Saturday Sep 2011

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adder, brown, cane, club, dace, dry, fishing, fly, flylite, grayling, hargreaves, jack, milward, nadder, of, out, rod, snake, split, teffont, town, trout

Many years back I dated a young lady near the town of Tisbury in Wiltshire, conveniently her father, a retired colonel was a member of his local fishing club on the River Nadder.

After a few visits to Wiltshire, approval was finally given to join him for a day’s fly fishing as a guest on the Nadder run by the Teffont Fishing Club.

Armed with my Millward Flylite split cane rod and a selection of dry flies bought from Farlow’s of Pall Mall the previous day, we set off in search of brown’s and grayling. That day local knowledge prevailed and the colonel caught several trout and graying, eventually I managed to hook a lone lady, thankfully my dry-fly fishing skills didn’t let me down that day. Walking back that evening the colonel told me about the history of this little twisting stream, looking back now, I forget most of the detail but one thing I always remember was the name, Nadder, a name given after the adder snake common in the Wiltshire district. The shape of the adder similar to that of the river, with its twists and turns. True? maybe, maybe not but I like the tale.

Here we have Jack Hargreaves dry-fly fishing on the Nadder delivered in his own unique gentle manner and hooking a rather fine dace.

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