Puff balls in the woods / undergrowth which sound and n look hollow , tend to be smallish and expel a puff of pores when bashed (hence the name) are yucky. Puff balls in the fields (invariably in meadow type grassland) are solid and fantastic to eat. Meaty in texture, soak up other flavours and can...

Am planning next year’s summer family holiday. Has anyone any experience of saltwater in Galicia (NW Spain)? Given that the coast is heavily indented with multiple estuaries I am assuming that there must be bass there but can find very little info on the web. I know that there is some spectacular t...

The Wandle in London, once upon a time one of the most prolific chalk streams in the south of England, really does take a bashing. Years ago the fashion printing (Liberty etc.) industry was based on its banks and pretty much destroyed it, then it was used as a general rubbish dump and more recently...

Neil, Thanks, but the closest we will get to Steamboat will be fishing the Blue and the Colorado . Unfortunately the trip is now all mapped out (needless to say Daddy has of course considered fishing opportunities at every stop) and Steamboat is off the route. Does anyone know if there is there a B...

I'm taking the family to Colorado and Wyoming in the summer (we live in London) and I have a vision of sitting by a river, under the stars, by a fire, drinking bourbon from an old enamelled tin cup. Idealistic and romantic maybe but I'm looking forward to it! I'm not even sure if I like bourbon, bu...

I know that it doesn’t sit comfortably with the majority of SL readers but river ownership is a fact here in England What is sad is that somewhere so beautiful with such excellent wild (yes there are plenty of wild brownies up there and lots of big grayling – and they are all wild) fishing should b...

Brilliant. I think that the website as been written by the same nice Nigerian guy who keeps on emailing me and asking for my bank details because he wants me to look after his ill-gotten gains. It appears to be written to appeal some very, very thick overseas visitors desperate to experience Englan...

There's some superb fishing on the Fier, both downstream from Annecy about an hour adn a half's drive from Les Gets, or higher up in the mountains above Annecy at Alix. Both are Class 1 flyfishing C&R only. Most of the highes lakes and tarns tend to be fished with flies and bubble floats, or if...

Come the summer I have got a mini road trip planned with the family. Me, wife and two kids (boy will have his 10th birthday there and already loves fishing) in a camper van / RV going from Denver to Yellowstone and back. Leaving Denver I plan to go up the Le Cache Poudre, down the upper Laramie the...

Lovely fish Sudesh. I fished with Dominique about 5 years ago. I was woefully under gunned, fishing an 8 weight and being a woosy Englishman totally unprepared for how really wild it was. Your great video just cannot give a true picture of the terrain – the incessant roar of the breakers, the wind,...