I didn’t buy Bob Wyatt’s ‘Trout Hunting’ when it first came out in 2004. I had devoured and enjoyed his articles in Fly Fishing & Fly Tying, and reckoned that they would largely be duplicated in the book, so why would I want the stuff twice over? Anyhow, with the passage of sufficient time, I recently borrowed the book from a mate and have been dipping in all over the place for the last couple of days, and can only praise it to the stars. The guy simply ‘gets it’. This isn’t really for those who fish small stocked stillwaters for rainbows, it’s more for the hunter of wild fish (grown on’s count, IMO). You will seldom read more ‘truth’ in a UK fishing book. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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cumbriafishingfestival.co.uk

you may enjoy this then ....

Trout Hunting with Bob Wyatt. Fly fishing and fly tying for wild trout in New Zealand

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

good link barbersbruce - cheers

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Steve


"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." Paul O'Neil

It is a great book but with the risk of igniting the 'purist' thread again, he is one.

He has some views which would rile many. His view on small put and takes is pretty ............ blunt.

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Carl

http://www.wandlepiscators.net/
http://teiseangling.co.uk/index.htm

TOMORROW THE TRENT COULD BE YOUR FISHERY! When are YOU going to JOIN THE ANGLING TRUST?

......and pretty much spot on. An excellent book - one of the best I've read. Which reminds me: when do I get my copy back Rob??

M

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The sun pushed dark spokes of melt and sparkle
Across the fields of hoar. And the river steamed -
Flint-olive.


http://northcountryangler.blogspot.com

Does Wyatt somehow suggest that small wild fish are more "worthy" than bigger stocked fish from small stillwaters?
If so...
I've caught both & I don't see how anyone with a brain can say that a 7oz wild river fish which has probably never seen a fly before is more difficult to catch than a 15lb'er from Avington which gets cast at repeatedly by everyone from the instant it is stocked. It simply defies logic.
Still, I'm sure it's a great book.

If the Barmcakes got it, you can kiss it goodbye Matt.
Tell him to bring it on the 18th, and then I'll nick it off you for a while, sounds a good read, and it's obviously helped you.
S.

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"A glint of sun has warmed the air,The flies will soon hatch out, To lure and tempt from their deep lair, The bonnie speckled trout." SKB tackle supporter. I love Furled Leaders.

Yes Steven, the inter-bred has it......and a few other titles as well

I don't remember there being any advice in Wyatt's book as to what to do when you are getting spanked by the opposition pair during a sweepstake on a dour big fish water, so I don't know what use he'll be getting from it.

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The sun pushed dark spokes of melt and sparkle
Across the fields of hoar. And the river steamed -
Flint-olive.


http://northcountryangler.blogspot.com

I'm on page two.... no rush is there? Don't know where Wyatt get this idea from though, that a wild, free, free-thinking, fee-spirited, spontaneous, opportunistic, wonder of natural selection and evolution is more 'worthy' than a freaky fat pellet pig Anyway, I'm off to order my Pennine season ticket, so I can get lots of masculine bends in my rod. That reminds me... must tie some of those clever, pretty 'Stalking' bugs'.

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Too much Saturn, not enough Moon.

Buzzers 2012


Fly Clips & Stands

I Love it already!! So, I ordered the book at Amazon last night!