Becks and Brown Trout

  Well as far as fishing summers go I think that to use a racing term 2024 is one to put down as an also ran.  It was slow to get going due to last years biblical rainfall. Then being follo...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/09/summers-drawing-to-end.html

 After pretty much a lifetime of fishing and being a fly fisherman for 54 years now I have learned a bit about fly fishing ,  mainly I have learned that I really don’t know that much at all.�...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/07/why-bamboo-because-its-its-joy-thats-why.html

One of my favourite Artists from the 70s was Ian Drury and the blockheads .And after a long driving session a few days ago when I explored my Spotify library that song has been in my head .  The...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/06/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-3.html

 I picked this rod up at the Grayling Society Auction at the last Symposium. What a cracking little rod !!! . I am getting increasingly fond of the whole bamboo rods experience .  Perfect for t...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/05/constable-wallop-brook.html

 A blog I have followed for years is a Hippo on the lawn a recent comment on my blog shows two things , First it tells me Tom the writer was ill and the poor bugger is so confined that he has no...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/04/one-for-hippo.html

 It has been by all accounts and also by some considerable margin. A depressingly long , wet and miserable winter.  There has been no proper winter weather ie hard frosts and some proper snow.�...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/04/at-last-rising-fish.html

 I have just read that the above fishery is going under new management ,  Great news its somewhere that I have fished in the past but my recent enquiry about it a few months ago was responded t...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/03/wykeham-lakes-scarborough.html

 This year I am starting the process of getting into retirement.  I think initially it will be a day a week less work and then over the next years slowly increase fishing time and decrease work...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/02/trout-bum-or-mildly-eccentric.html

  Monday 8th January  I had a walk from the office this lunch time.  Grey Skies , Northerly wind coming straight in over the North Sea , pretty depressing weather really ,  I had to drive...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2024/01/shack-nasties-and-muggles.html

  Firstly I wish any body who is still reading Blogs a very happy Christmas and a prosperous new year . An especially hearty wish for those of you are return visitors to my blog. Its been a st...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-christmas-reflection-on-rivers-and.html

Sorry about the pretty meagre  posts this year Its been a strange old year .  Having the new club water to fish has been great and I have caught a few notable specimen fish , A new PB grayling ...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2023/10/autumn-update.html

 last year the blog and social media in general got under my skin a little . It  both occurred to me and concerned me that I got to wondering was I going fishing for pleasure and just sharing m...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2023/06/so-heres-another-post-to-bring-year-to.html

  Despite me really thinking that I wouldn't come up with anything worth saying sometimes you just have to change your mind.  The sometimes this time was that Mr Whitehouse stimulating and so...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2023/03/when-something-is-worth-saying.html

  One way and another its been a turbulent few months.  My good friend Peter passing away suddenly was a blow his passing has also meant me picking up the reigns as Secretary of my local club...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2023/01/over-and-out.html

 January was a slow start February was gloomy  March no fishing fly tying , walks and work parties  April season start but no trout only grayling  Ma...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/12/month-by-month-highlights.html

  Well following Covid I was hoping that 2022 would provide a welcome return to normality.  But I guess catching nothing but Grayling on the first day of the trout season , and pretty much al...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-i-was-hoping-for-lot-better.html

 It is an interesting truth that the best why to learn is from someone who is better than you either from listening or observing .  It is also an interesting truth that having to do things diff...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/11/things-you-learn.html

 So that`s it then the 2022 trout season done and dusted.  " dusted" being the operative word. Never have I seen so little rain and the rivers so low and here we are in October with warm dry we...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/10/what-strange-back-to-front-season.html

  This summer has seen the worst drought for many decades, for the last couple of months the rivers have shrunk alarmingly , however a week on the Greek island of Crete did remind me of how ev...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/09/at-last-we-have-some-rain-so-my-first.html

 I was recently out in the car between home and York .  I drove over a bridge over the river Derwent at a place where I fished probably 35 years ago . As I wasn`t in a rush I decided to stop an...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/08/an-old-itch-is-bothering-me.html

 I am a member of a couple of online forums and have been for very many years and it has be apparent that there is a growing interest in the use of Bamboo rods  and silk lines .  But also an i...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/08/fascination-of-vintage-gear-and-little.html

Apparently we are in the longest period of hot dry weather for 50 years sadly this means that all the local rivers are struggling and consequently of late fishing has ended up being a late aftern...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/07/summer-time-blues-and-whiter-shade-of.html

 Recently on Facebook there was an interesting link to a piece by Simon Cooper.   https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Fishing-Breaks---A-cast-from-the-past.html?soid=1101626840123&aid=XjeRHc...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/06/on-facebook-there-was-interesting-link.html

  Its been a tough April.  Very low levels, cold water and cold winds combined with little insect life has meant that catching trout has been hard work.  The grayling which are out of season...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/05/summer-starts-here-and-bamboo-days-on.html

  I am not sure why the above annual headline is so important to me but I guess its pretty simple really ,  I have always been and always will be a fan of dry fly fishing .  not for any snob...

https://brooksandbecks.blogspot.com/2022/04/first-on-dry.html