What three words !!!!! These three words….”RED LETTER DAYS” !!!! 😉😉😉🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | Jul 24, 2024 | News

Wow, what a hectic seven days, different locations, different weather, different clients and sublime guiding days, with clients really getting to grips with the technical freestone rivers of the Upper Wye catchment ….. Variety has certainly been the name of the game...

The Dry Fly ; Its what Summer is all about !!! The waiting, the watching, the hatch……. The Rise !!!!

by Joe Alexander | Jul 13, 2024 | News

As I’m writing this, on a somewhat overcast, yet muggy Saturday afternoon, it’s looking ominous up in the clouds….. Again !! More rain last night, and, as I was travelling back from Herefordshire this morning, coming through Penybont, near the Severn Arms pub, the...

The Wild Stream …. A stage of delights !!! I step into the river, and marvel at the wonders ahead of me …….

by Joe Alexander | Jun 29, 2024 | News

Another hectic week is coming to a close, as I write this in a much cooler Rhayader this morning. In fact the last two days have been eight or nine degrees cooler than the beginning of the week. I recall a slow wade up the Afon Claerwen, only five or six days ago, and...

Ten degrees, windy, rainy, more rain, dank and dismal…….Ohhh, it must be Flaming June !!!! 😂😂😂🎣🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | Jun 15, 2024 | News

What strange weather over the last ten days or so, with some evenings dipping well into single figures, and daytime weather forecasts really dismal for early June…. It’s been a case of making the most of things, with fishing the smaller, more intimate streams on the...

Mayfly madness, with Danica for dinner !!!! Dun or spinner, both are a winner ……..😉😉😉🎣🎣🐟🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | Jun 4, 2024 | News

Wowser, what a week on the streams I’ve had. Just the best sport ever, combined with the immense variety of being fortunate enough to be able to fish so many different streams locally, with some on my Fishing Passport season permit, and others on the Rhayader and Elan...

A Stream ….. Secretive, sassy, sublime, and mine for the day !!! 😉😉🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | May 26, 2024 | News

Another busy week for me, with guiding and getting out on some of the wilder streams of the Wye and Usk Foundations Fishing Passport ….. Fortunately, mid week, we had a front come in, with masses of rain, and that Northerly wind…. An odd combination at this time of...

A day of rock, heather and Salmo Trutta !!! Sublime angling at the serene Nant-y-moch reservoir….. A proper red letter day !!!! 😉😉😉🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | May 19, 2024 | News

Well, with the warmer weather certainly making fishing fun on the wild streams, particularly late afternoon…. I wanted to give one of the big wild waters a bash. It’s also a bit of a nice change from skulking about in the jungle of a wild stream, and casting your dry...

…… and as the sunset came beneath the evening on a hill, I told you I will always love you, wild stream I always will !!! 😉🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

by Joe Alexander | May 13, 2024 | News

Another superb week in the life of “Escape the Mainstream”….. Some serious leg work done, and many miles of exploring carried out, a lot of it of which has been on the secretive wild streams, which are my true love, followed very closely by the wild, heather clad...

A Penygarreg plethora, followed by an extravaganza on the Edw ….. Just sublime dry fly sport on both river and reservoir 😉🎣🎣🐟🐟

by Joe Alexander | May 6, 2024 | News

Well, sport has certainly picked up as far as dry fly tactics are concerned, on both the big wild still waters of the Elan Valley, and the wild streams…. Obviously fish have been looking up for quite some time on both the Wye and the Usk, namely the trigger being...

A grand slam, guided days, and the waking up of the wild streams !!!! Is Spring finally sneaking into mid Wales ?? 🎣🐟

by Joe Alexander | Apr 26, 2024 | News

Last Sunday I went with a good friend Tim, along the Northerly dust track of Claerwen Reservoir. The walk is well over an hour, to a favoured area, just beyond the third spur as I call it ….. Later in the afternoon we had a frantic two hours sport, when Bibio Pomonae...