Welcome to Issue 79 | Eat, Sleep, Fish

One of the core themes of Eat, Sleep, Fish and in fact, our new publication Fly Culture, is to celebrate time on the water with good friends.

To me at least, this is of more importance than just about anything else.

There is nothing nicer than getting a call from a friend asking if you fancy going fishing and when you have taken just a few seconds to accept the offer you plan where you will head and then decide you should probably tie a few flies just in case.

One of my friends, Ian May and I, would fish, talk about fishing and chat about life in general once every week or so. He is also one of the founding fathers of Eat, Sleep, Fish who took a great little video interview with me and Jim Williams on the river in Issue 2, took some wonderful cover shots and wrote some articles too.

I was deeply saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Ian who left us way too young.

He was so enthusiastic about ESF andFly Culture and as a photographer was thrilled to hear a couple of his pictures would be appearing in the first edition.

I so, so wish he could have seen the finished magazine but it isn’t to be.

I, along with many others, will miss him so much, along with the boundless enthusiasm he would bring to a project.

Ian reinforced a couple of strongly held beliefs that my father passed on to me. Firstly, be nice to people; it doesn’t cost anything.

The other is be a good friend. If you haven’t heard from someone in a while give them a call and see if you can fix up some fishing. Enjoy each other's company and perhaps even catch a fish or two.

They seem pretty simple ideas but Ian lived by them.

This one is for you big fella!

Good fishing

Pete Tyjas

Pete Tyjas is a fishing guide based in Devon UK

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