Testing a new reservoir is always challenging, especially with the Covid restrictions. One of my French friends give me last October a hint about the Travecy reservoir in the north of France (close to Saint-Quentin). By Guido Vinck A few months later we can say that this is a hidden gem, with […]
The Italian team is for many years already one of the top teams during the World Championships Fly Fishing and former team member Sandro Soldarini is with his 20 selections as a fisherman and as captain, one of the most renowned Italian top anglers. A decade ago he started his own fly fishing company – […]
A new website recording the life and legacy of one of the foremost pioneers of reservoir fly fishing, Dr Howard Alexander Bell of Wrington (1888-1974) is now available. Dr. Bell fished Blagdon in the 1920s and the succeeding years. As far as is known, this is the first website dedicated to him. As a result […]
Whether I am chasing large trout on a reservoir or seatrout along the coast of a Danish island, it is usually the Helios 2 rod that comes out of the rod-case first. The ten foot Helios 2 for a line-class #7 is a great tool on the Dutch trout reservoirs like the Ronde Bleek, the […]
The Club Mohets & Amblève organised for the sixth time the international “Great Prize” on the beautiful reservoir of Rabais. With 34 teams from Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg with a great many big names competition was fierce. The people that organise the competition have a wholesale company in quality meat from Spain […]
From Saturday the 2nd of April everything is back to normal at the water basins in Kluizen, so they can be flyfished again as before. Fish have been planted twice already this year, a total of some 800 kilograms. The troutfishery opens on Saturday at 8.00 hours. Source: www.vliegvissen.be. Drawing by Jos van der Wouw.
