Most people don’t realise that there are a lot of species of wasp in the UK and not just the irritating ‘yellow-jacket’ jobs that pester us if we choose to wear the wrong coloured shirt, nope we have loads of wasps and some of them attack trees and make ‘wasp galls’, these are where […]
From cane fishing rods to carbon By Andy Sliwa Firstly I had better introduce myself I’m Andy Sliwa and I make fishing rods. I started messing about with rods around forty years ago when I decided I could make the rods better than they were originally, I’m still trying. I got into making cane […]
Here is my April Blog part two…I haven’t been as active on the blogging front this month as I could have been, not because there was little to comment on, rather that I may make comments that I could possibly later regret! So Margaret Thatcher is dead and buried, I must admit that I believe she was […]
I have seen some old pictures of homemade fishing floats constructed out of paper…How very strange!! But if you think about it, it really isn’t that weird after-all paper is simply processed wood so I decided that I would give it a go. So here is how to make a goose quill fishing float…The Goose Quill Zephyr Hybrid Fishing […]
Chapter To cross the Eastern Sea The small army of Dark Wizards that had been swiftly brought together by Flereous Rex stood in loose ranks atop the highest cliffs that overlook the Vermilion Sound. Dark Wizard that have lost their way in life and have nothing left to live for except living itself, wretched old men […]
Roxholme Trout Fishery “The Roxholme Grange Trout Farm and Fly Fishery is a family run business that consists of a well cared for and maintained fishery situated on private land owned by Roxholme Grange in the village of Carlton in Lindrick, North Nottinghamshire, England.” That is the ‘blurb’ on the front page of their website, […]
The girl with the tail to tell Talia slipped into a deep depression in the days following the discovery that her new appendage was a permanent fixture. The ‘thing’ could not be removed, not even surgically, she tried, it hurt like hell and then grew back overnight and by the time it had finished […]
Well the Weather is a bit shit innit! April already?! Well here is my April Blog part one, it is suposed to be a fishing blog But I have to be honest, I am not going out in this…I just cannot face it. The rods are ready to go but the will to take them […]