by Glen Stuart-Mathews PART 1 The fate of our adventure began 30 million years before the words, “ We have to go to The Maldives!” finally spilled from my mouth. Tersia wasn’t surprised, we had been ogling over this piece of paradise for the most part of lockdown and she knew that look in my [...]
This is a series of bait and their fly imitates that I'm doing as nod to Saltwater Prey, probably my favourite piece of fishing literature. However I will do this (rather selfishly) as and when I'm imitating prey items for upcoming trips. If you've spent a fair amount of time on fishing boats in the [...]
Three sheets is the story of an exploratory trip undertaken by a small Simms sponsored crew into the Belizian outback during lock down. Something I spent a lot of lockdown time day-dreaming about while staring out window wondering if the world would ever be ok again. I really enjoyed it and you can feel the [...]
For the last two years I've questioned my passion for fly fishing. Lost and in love with my work all but drowned out fantasies of wish list fish and far-away exploration. Even standing on a beach in Gabon, in the peach morning light I was left wondering if it was still there. And then you [...]
I'm a sight fisherman way before I'm a fly fisherman. Faced with two options; blind casting a fly rod, or pitching live bait at a target, I will pick the latter every time. As a result I find myself only ever really looking back at the trip photos of fish in the water, actively feeding [...]
As good as the initial Jigskinz poppers looked, they suffered from the same issue most crease flies have (in my opinion) -they were too soft. I tried all sorts of tricks using cut-able foam sheets until I decided that EVA blocks were the only option. There were two issues I needed to solve for; 1)Using [...]
Sixty meters off that point was one and a half meters of the reason I'd run the war gauntlet. It lay suspended in an enormous current line that the GTs in these parts seem to gravitate towards. Vertical striations across its flank, dark and dramatic like the graphite faces below me and [...]
I usually have more than one reel to clean when im coming back from a trip, and although the line winder can take two lots of backing, thats usually not enough and I hate the dance of moving things on and off. The perforations do make it great for cleaning fly reel backing. In my [...]
Sometimes the weird guys in yellow (smallmouth yellowfish) ignore their interest in entomology entirely. This is something that, if you'd told me about, I would have laughed off. It is however the second time I've seen it on separate systems. In both accounts there was a large amount of wind and shrubs in bloom. Packs [...]
Essential fly fishing gear for a trip which you don't think you will need. Mosquito Net. Ray got me on to this one and its been used ever since. Not always for mosquitos. And mesh is never a bad thing to have around water. Travel Plug An obvious one. BUT- get [...]
