Archive | March, 2015

River Height vs Salmon Catches

By on March 23, 2015 in Techniques that catch fish

How many anglers check the river height to assess their chances of catching a salmon before leaving home and does river height play a part in determining salmon catches? My good friend Jim McLaughlin has been collecting fish catch figures from Wyesham, on the bottom part of the river Wye for the last three years […]

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Salmon Fly Size Calculator

By on March 11, 2015 in Techniques that catch fish

My good friend Jim McLaughlin has just launched a new App called The Salmon Fly Size Calculator which is based on the old Hardy Arkless calculator – for those of you that can remember it. To use the calculator you simply enter the water temperature, the speed of the river, the level of colour of […]

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Old Photographs from The Nyth

By on March 6, 2015 in Wye History

I came across some old photographs of salmon fishing on the Wye when I was looking through my archives recently. There are many of them but this particular batch were taken on the Nyth. The Nyth, with its large,comfortable and well appointed fishing lodge, is situated on the upper part of the Wye and in […]

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