Your Personal Catch & Release Record
I’ve never considered fly fishing to be a competitive sport, amongst anglers that is. It’s the fish you have to battle with after all, so another fly fisher can only really be considered company on the water. Hence, the TOPS Corporate Challenge has never been about fishing, despite some 24 000 Trout having been caught and released over the last 20 years. This benchmark fly fishing festival is all about the time you spend […]
For once the naysayers, me included, got it completely wrong. We always watch any incoming weather with trepidation and automatically assume the worst especially when we see a front looming. And we had every right to be worried this last weekend, a max of 3 degrees predicted, with winds up to 7 meters a second, definite rain, sleet and probable snow, it was an anglers worst nightmare. Fishing to a backdrop of snowcapped mountains is […]
After 20 years of watching fly fishers pit their wits against the wiles of feral Trout, you would think that we’ d seen it all, yet every year at the TOPS Corporate Challenge something happens that beggars belief. Usually it’s antics off the field that never fail to amuse and provide anecdotes that decades later still have us in stitches. We’ve had anglers take on Jersey bull’s ( no prizes for who came off 2nd […]
