With 117 days to the bleakest month of the year, tis nice to dwell, ponder, and think of the blissful Season ahead of us ……. Clocks ticking folks !! 😉😉🎣🎣🐟🐟

by Joe Alexander | Jan 18, 2024 | News

Bbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!! As I’m writing this it’s minus two outside, got down to minus eight last night, on my thermometer in the garden; when I went out to top up the bird feeders with fat balls and nuts. The birds were straight onto the feeders as soon as I turned...

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, it’s the best time of the year……🎣🎣🐟🐟🧑‍🎄🎄🧑‍🎄🎄🧑‍🎄🎄🧑‍🎄

by Joe Alexander | Dec 22, 2023 | News

Well, this is really my Christmas message to all you kindly folk out there that have a piscatorial interest and also a love of the great outdoors. As I’m dwelling on what to write in this wee blog, it’s actually just calming down out there tonight….. We’ve had two...

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day.We want to go outside and play…. Come again some other day !!!!

by Joe Alexander | Nov 14, 2023 | News

SO, what absolutely foul weather we’ve had recently, with storms Ciaran, and yesterday storm Debi ….. bloody awful to say the least. Damaging, dangerous and damn right difficult to do anything in, be it work, drive, hike, you name it, just totally unpleasant. And the...

Drum roll please…….. Salmo Trutta take a bow !!!! You’ve been fabulous, on river and stream, reservoir and mountain llyn ….. just a magical Season.

by Joe Alexander | Oct 17, 2023 | News

So, where do I start, well, I’ll finish first !!! Yesterday was my last day out chasing the ever gorgeous Welsh Gold ….. a biting morning with an ambient temperature that struggled to get above seven degrees in the Elan Valley. I was adventurous and initially headed...

Days to do are getting few !!! Caban Coch reservoir: two fantastic mornings, in wild, wet weather ……

by Joe Alexander | Oct 6, 2023 | News

With the season now well and truly finished on the rivers, for our lovely wild brown trout, it just leaves the big wild waters of the Elan Valley, and Claerwen reservoir open, with their season carrying on till October 17th. I’ve been lucky the last two sessions on...

Three short sorties; on the wild Reservoirs of the Elan …. Caban Coch and Claerwen yielded fantastic sport, and some clonking fish too !!!

by Joe Alexander | Sep 27, 2023 | News

As I write this short, but dynamic blog, the infant Storm Agnes is just starting to gain some momentum …. I’ve had a morning of fitness and being spoilt in Ty Morgan’s, as Daisy had phoned through to the bistro and paid for a muffin with a very classy birthday candle...