Fishing is this country’s biggest participation sport and this weekend Gliffaes swelled the sports ranks by another 9 new recruits. Over the last three days we have hosted our tenth, ‘Fly Fishing for Beginners’ course. Gliffaes is the perfect venue to learn to fish, although not an easy one, we don’t stock the river so [...]

This piece and the photographs has been supplied by Jonathan & Peter Steeds.To celebrate our fiftieth birthdays my twin brother Peter and I thought we would treat ourselves to the three day fishing package offered at Gliffaes – what a treat it was! Although we have done a fair bit of still water trout fishing [...]

As I look back over the last two weeks I cannot remember a year in the last fifteen that has produced such dense hatches of grannom, and, in addition, that huge fly that literally crawls out of the river, ‘the stonefly’ has been in evidence. The water has been relatively cold and the result has [...]

The 2010 fishing season has been open for a month now and I would  be lying if I said that it had got off to a good start. The very late spring and the cold weather through out most of March seems to have delayed the hatches of Olives and Grannoms and in late March [...]