Welcome to Issue 46 | Eat, Sleep, Fish

October is a transitionary month for me. The trout season has finished on my home river but I squeeze as much out of what remains of it on rivers that close a little later. It is one of the neat little idiosyncrasies of the UK that different regions have slightly different seasons.

Come to think of it a friend and I hopped in a car at the start of March this year and drove to Wales as the season opened two weeks earlier than at home. You do this sort of things because you are a little excited and perhaps impatient. We caught mostly grayling on nymphs but it was a sweet moment when we caught a few trout too, that made the trip feel worthwhile.

For me, this year has been the season of the dry fly both personally and professionally. I can’t recall in all the seasons I have worked as a guide that I have tied on a dry fly with such confidence. The hatches have been good pretty much all the way through the season.

It doesn’t mean I am turning into some sort of dry fly snob or anything, it is just I have really enjoyed making a cast with a fly line, getting the perfect drift and sometimes, not always, getting a trout to eat the fly.

The mild October has meant that the grayling have been rising to dries but as much as I want it to last it won’t. I will be fishing nymphs which bring a different angle to my fishing and another reason why I enjoy fly fishing so much.

Thank you so much for the calls emails and visits. I can’t tell you how much better they have made me feel and I am on the road to recovery. I can’t fish a full day yet which has been frustrating but I hope it won’t be long.

A huge thanks to Lewis Hendrie for the cover shot, nice one bud!

So, this is Issue 46, I hope you enjoy it.

Good fishing

Pete Tyjas

Pete Tyjas is a fly fishing guide based in Devon, UK