…musings, mutterings and missives from a piscatory life on The River Monnow

Archive for December, 2006

Grayling and Grey December Days

“Would you like to go fishing today?” smiled Mrs S sweetly, across the breakfast table. Some questions dont require an answer do they? And when the alternative to riverside escape involved spending the day in the company of the tyrannical female hierarchy of the inlaws, all I could manage by way of a response was […]

November Rain

With all the rain this week and tales of gloom and depsondency from our North Walian correspondents on the Severn and Dee, I felt downright bloody sceptical on the receipt of a friends “Get out and fish man! It’ll be wonderful” email.
Driving down through the Herefordshre borders, ditches filled with swirling torrents of terracotta sluice […]