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Frome and Piddle fisheries catchment summary 2009/10

April 13, 2010 / John / 0 Comments

We had an exceptional Frome Piddle and West Dorset Fisheries Association AGM on Friday of last week, and one of our outstanding long term founder members said to me “That AGM was one of the finest ever meetings, and I have been a member for over forty years” He was talking of course about the great …

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Fishing in Poland

April 8, 2010 / John / 0 Comments

A while ago I did a post about a cracking Polish Fly Fishing Guide who fished the DFC water on a day ticket, and caught some lovely fish. Well as promised Thomasz has set up a small company taking people fishing in Poland and it looks like a lot of fun, check out his website. …

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A hint of spring

April 7, 2010 / John / 0 Comments

It is amazing how two river catchments in the same area can be so different. Yesterday we spent the morning working on the Frome, a biting wind, high water, no fly life and no fish rising….(but it won’t be long) Then we spent the afternoon in the Piddle valley, a proper spring day, loads of Grannom …

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Museum of life

April 6, 2010 / John / 0 Comments

Hi John I have just been informed that on Thursday 15th. April, on BBC 2, a programme called “Museum of life” contains a report from River fly partnership about the Anglers monitoring initiative. May be worth mentioning on our local web site, as there could be some of our members who would like to watch it. Regards Rod

Easter weekend

April 4, 2010 / John / 0 Comments

I was hoping to at least see a small flurry of early Grannom over this Easter weekend…….But No! Still a fairly brisk NW wind blowing and a large volume of rain leaving our lovely chalk rivers running high, coloured and a little cold. Chatting to a Bee keeper on the stream near Kingston Mauward earlier today, he …

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