Biggest Learning – You Can’t Trust Memory This year I decided to try fishing a few matches having completed my first match last December (I didn’t blank, and we’ll leave it there!). I liked the idea of being focussed on my tactics up front, but adapting them under pressure based on the peg I…
Hooking Alex It’s been a year since I caught my first fish, a beautiful ¾lb wild Grayling on the river Wye with the biggest most ridiculous grin that wouldn’t go away! I’d not felt anything like it before but have been lucky to many times since. At that point I’d been learning fly…
Simple Answer Why don’t more women fish? Fishing is a man’s sport. Or at least it’s seen that way. Fishing is a form of hunting so the archetypal man could feed himself and the family. Why would a women want to hook worms and maggots, or go home stinking of fish having snagged a…
How do you shatter fishing gender stereotypes? Based on my experience, it’s a lot simpler than you might imagine. In fact, I don’t think much about participating in a sport that is primarily male dominated. That’s probably because my grandfather had me dropping a line off of a fishing pier when I was just about…