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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Joe Alexander | Apr 17, 2024 | News
Strewth, strange weather the last few days. Here in mid wales, or to be more precise, Rhaeadr Gwy, we’ve had the lot, sun, rain, hoofing winds and sleet !!! Today and yesterday were classic days for November, not mid April !!!! As I parked up at the dam wall of...
