SALT & SALMONIDS

Kingfish on the fly - an opportunity to target these impressive gamefish on the fly whilst visiting my daughter in NZ was just irresistible!

There may be no need to stress about how far out to sea you can throw a fly... Look for life on the edge - what you find may amaze you!

Portugal doesn't seem to feature as a worthy saltwater flyfishing destination...it should!

Ten minutes in, another brutal take, and this was undeniably...unbelievably...bigger! This was an out and out wrestling match

All around, the trout, both rainbows and browns, were frantically hitting the mays as they played a deadly dangerous game of chicken...

As Pacific salmon species go, this is the one with serious anger management issues that tends to go off like a small thermonuclear device...

"this was a challenge that put fighting a nuclear-powered 60lb Chinook on an 8wt rod on a footing with scooping leaves out of a pond..."

I couldn’t quite believe what I was being told to do, especially as the Javelin had never been a strong track & field event for me at school

I struck into a fish which turned out to be a 2-3lb jack, but as I started to retrieve the line, a 7ft shark suddenly burst onto the scene

The little girl, sitting on her father’s shoulders had her hand to her mouth. I distinctly heard the words “Daddy…will the fishy be OK?”

it was Fuerteventura’s stunning, silver-blue, jet black-finned Palometa that gave me a flyfishing fun experience to rival any tropical flats

unless you have a burning desire to visit Ireland via the cheapest route possible, using a float-tube in the Bristol channel is ill advised