Welcome to Issue 78 | Eat, Sleep, Fish

June is the edition I worry about most. Not because of content worries. No, it is more about time. For me it is the peak of the guiding season and I am on the river with clients most days. The house has been full with guides who work with me who are grabbing a bed for the night before joining me guiding again. It is a pretty tiring time but hugely enjoyable. We're taking out a mix of seasoned anglers wanting us to help unlock the secrets of the Taw, anglers making the transition from fishing lakes and reservoirs who want to try and catch a wild brown trout or people wanting to try fly fishing for the first time.

One day I can be teaching someone how to fish a switch rod for salmon and the next explaining to a newcomer where we might find a trout, just before they make their first cast on moving water. It is all good, no matter what the days bring.

If we have colleagues staying over after work we'll eat dinner and talk fishing and then go outside with a fly rod and talk casting and shoot some loops until it gets dark.

If I am alone with Emma then I crash into bed and sleep well.

I'm writing this on a rare day off and feel pretty burnt out, but writing it also makes me feel how lucky I am to do something that makes me so incredibly happy.

I wrote in ESF recently that I sometimes worry that I am too one dimensional as so much of my time revolves around fly fishing and right now it does but I wouldn't have it any other way!

Thanks Sandy for an awesome cover shot!

Good fishing

Pete Tyjas

Pete Tyjas is a fishing guide based in Devon

Pete is also working on a new hard copy fly fishing magazine called Fly Culture that will be published later in the year. More details HERE