by Joe Alexander | May 19, 2024 | News
Well, with the warmer weather certainly making fishing fun on the wild streams, particularly late afternoonβ¦. I wanted to give one of the big wild waters a bash. Itβs also a bit of a nice change from skulking about in the jungle of a wild stream, and casting your dry...
by Joe Alexander | May 13, 2024 | News
Another superb week in the life of βEscape the Mainstreamββ¦.. Some serious leg work done, and many miles of exploring carried out, a lot of it of which has been on the secretive wild streams, which are my true love, followed very closely by the wild, heather clad...
by Joe Alexander | May 6, 2024 | News
Well, sport has certainly picked up as far as dry fly tactics are concerned, on both the big wild still waters of the Elan Valley, and the wild streamsβ¦. Obviously fish have been looking up for quite some time on both the Wye and the Usk, namely the trigger being...
by Joe Alexander | Apr 26, 2024 | News
Last Sunday I went with a good friend Tim, along the Northerly dust track of Claerwen Reservoir. The walk is well over an hour, to a favoured area, just beyond the third spur as I call it β¦.. Later in the afternoon we had a frantic two hours sport, when Bibio Pomonae...
by Joe Alexander | Apr 17, 2024 | News
Strewth, strange weather the last few days. Here in mid wales, or to be more precise, Rhaeadr Gwy, weβve had the lot, sun, rain, hoofing winds and sleet !!! Today and yesterday were classic days for November, not mid April !!!! As I parked up at the dam wall of...
by Joe Alexander | Apr 6, 2024 | News
Such strange weather we are having at the moment, itβs a Saturday evening and we are in a deep low, with Storm Kathleen battering the extreme parts of the west of Wales and some other westerly areas of Britain β¦.. The winds last night in Rhaeadr Gwy were pretty pokey...
