Pete's Weighty ( Fly Fishing ) Words

We’re suffering from a bout of road burn today as we were up at the Spring Fly Fishing Show at the weekend. I got the short straw and drove the van up and held my breath every time I took the racing line. Thankfully everything got up there in one piece and all in all in was a pretty cool show. It was great to see so many talented fly tyers under one roof and meet up with friends old and new.

For me though the real fun is when the doors close at the end of the day and we break out the rods. We might work for different companies but we are all mates at the end of the day and chucking a few loops is good for the soul. It was a real pleasure to have a cast with our team but also with Jim and to have a chuck with Ben and Mike too they are all really awesome casters. 

I really enjoyed my first time up there and didn’t stop laughing the whole weekend. The highlight was, for me, Bob telling us about how he liked to dress in the 70’s.

We are counting down the days til the river trout fly fishing season starts. We have a busy weekend coming up with 3 of us teaching and I am hoping the weather is OK for us.

Mark has popped home for a few days and is going to write a blog about the weekend before last when he had Martyn for the weekend who wanted to learn how to cast as he is going to chase pike. As far as Mark was concerned it was a dream as his first love is pike on the fly. It sounds as though Martyn did a great job and is going to keep us informed of his exploits.