by Joe Alexander | Oct 19, 2025 | News
WOW, what a season …… Fun, sublime, varied, hectic and tiring , with the synonymous banter, craic and guiding bliss all thrown in to the mix !!! Tis certainly time to take a breather, before my work up at Bettws Hall Sporting Club begins, along with the clearing and...
by Joe Alexander | Sep 28, 2025 | News
Well, what a complete turn around weather wise. A week ago, huge floods and a deluge of rain last Saturday. Yet, this week, we’ve been accustomed to very cold nights here in the Cambrian Mountains, with night time temperatures dipping to minus three in the depths of...
by Joe Alexander | Sep 21, 2025 | News
Rain, rain , rain !!!!! That’s been the weather routine, on and off, over the last five or six days . A real autumnal feel is blanketed over the Elan Valley, where I have been doing most of my guiding, over the past ten days or so. A hugely satisfying week and a half...
by Joe Alexander | Aug 31, 2025 | News
I thank you Taylor Swift for those “stolen” lyrics, that actually sum up August very well. Tricky, frustrating and also fun, all rolled into one succulent, juicy, tantalisingly moreish treat !!!! If I’ve not been creeping up incredibly low rivers, I’ve been up in the...
by Joe Alexander | Aug 17, 2025 | News
….. Ha ha , the title is one that in my youth, often lead me astray, and probably fishing a little stream or river that I shouldn’t be on !!! As mum used to say to me, what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over !!!! I stick by that adage to this day, and,...
by Joe Alexander | Aug 3, 2025 | News
Another hugely satisfying week and a half bites, the proverbial dust, again !!! Clients, organising, and booking more, for next seasons sorties out into the Elenydd, and of course, Rhayader has been hosting the Enduro GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS moto cross. This is stage 4...
by Joe Alexander | Jul 20, 2025 | News
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH , easy on the brakes !!!! What a few days. Firstly I’d like to give a huge thankyou to James and his gang of elite, yes I use that word elite, as it defines the team that organise and put together a week of activities and joviality that is the...
by Joe Alexander | Jul 6, 2025 | News
Yet another busy time for myself, out on both stillwaters and wild streams, over the past week and a half or so . To be honest it’s been full on, but, I revel in the fast pace of life truth be told. Organising clients, and arranging days, to coincide with good...
by Joe Alexander | Jun 26, 2025 | News
As I’m pondering of what to write in this little blog, I’ve a rough kind of framework, of things I’d like to add, but, my mind takes me back to the mind blowing shores of the calm and remote Llyn Bugeilyn, were I was at yesterday. A client had some family issues, so a...
by Joe Alexander | Jun 12, 2025 | News
A lovely few guiding days just recently. I must say, the long anticipated decent rain is now well and truly amongst us, particularly in mid Wales. They weren’t daft the Victorian’s you know, that’s why they built the dams here in the Elan Valley. With a higher than...
