My first post

Inspired by such bloggers as North Country Angler and Flyfishing in South Wales here is my angling blog. Those who know me will not be surprised to hear it has taken about five years to actually get started. I’ll write about my fishing trips- simple as that. I live in Bristol and do a bit of fly fishing in sea and salt and some beach casting in the Bristol Channel. I’ve only recently really (re-)discovered fly fishing in rivers and I seem to be drawn towards fishing small waters. I’m quickly coming to realise that there’s plenty of available fishing across the bridge in South Wales. I’ve only properly fished for salmon once and two summers ago achieved a mini ambition of catching a bass on the fly. My other crystallising fishing related ambitions are to catch a 10lb bass and a salmon though at this stage I’d be as happy to catch one on a Flying C(ondom) as I would a fly. After a twenty five year gap I’ve just started tying my own flies again- which is nice.

I’m not so clear on the reasons why I’m going to keep this blog. Part of it will be traditional fishing diary though I’m not planning on revealing all the details such as exact locations and so on. I hope to keep a detailed linked diary with successful flies, exact locations, the day’s weather and the state of the tide and so on. Writing the blog feels like the right thing to do and I suppose I hope it puts me in touch with some like minded fishing types.