Andy Kitchener

Among the various breathtaking landscapes in Bulgaria, the Black Sea the one sea that touches the country with its salty, quiet waters to amuse the fisherman. With the Danube river against its northern flank and the Black sea plus the mountains which provide fantastic streams with trout Bulgaria is good for fishing if you search for your prey.

The ultimate fishermans gadget, sunglasses that record HD quality video. Andy Kitchener reviews these fly fishing sunglasses.

The Rhyacophila is the free swimming larva of a green sedge and is best fished close to the riverbed. Large, usually green, and always plump, and they don't build cases or nets. They roam freely about the fast water and they often drift loose, where they are a good food for trout. Many of these larvae have no gills at all and rely on absorbing oxygen from the water through their skin

Of all of the ways to catch fish, there are few are as exciting and rewarding as catching a fish on a fly that you have tied yourself. An artificial fly can entice the slow rise of a trout, gentle sip of a grayling, huge run of a Muskie or explosive strike of a largemouth bass. For many fly fishermen tying flies is as satisfying as landing the fish. This article explains some of the basic tools and their uses.

Dry fliy fishing is perhaps the most exciting fly fishing technique as you see the strike on the fly unlike nymph fishing or other techniques. However you must use the correct equipment / tackle and techniques

The traditional Japanese method of fly-fishing is called "Tenkara" (literally: "from heaven"). The 1st reference to tenkara fly-fishing was in 1878 in a book called "Diary of climbing Mt. Tateyama"

Little is written on fly fishing in the UK until 1496. Shakespeare's companion John Dennys wrote the earliest poetrical treatise and it was IZaak Walton's Compleat Angler 1653 which is probably the best known early book on fly fishing on the Derbyshire Wye.

Fly fishing is most renowned as a way for catching trout and salmon, today it is also used for all kinds of species including pike, bass, panfish, grayling and carp and even marine species, like redfish, snook, tarpon, bonefish and striped bass. Many species along the lines of chub, bream, rudd and even catfish are now targetted by a growing population of anglers whose aim is always to catch as numerous species as possible

The fly rod's rigidity which makes fast action fly rods more powerful. Greater power enables the fly fishing fly rod cast a line a longer distance than slow and medium action fly fishing fly rods. The stiffness of the fly rod helps increase line tension during the back-cast to allow the line to be loaded and then spring forward more quickly therefore giving a longer cast. ......... find out more about fast action fly rods

The caddis / sedge flies are an order Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings Caddis / sedges are closely associated with Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) which have scales on their wings, and the two orders together form the superorder Amphiesmenoptera.