IT all started simply enough.  Difficulty in seeing the end of the fly rod never mind a head-and-tail rise 40 metres away, meant it was time for a new pair of glasses. That’s when the trouble started, as the next episode of Not Exactly Fishing reveals.

So you want to know what’s behind all those Inland Revenue customers who never get through to the telephone help service? Thinking of putting your tax affairs online? Read on and ponder as Not Exactly Fishing reveals the reality of everyday dealing with the Revenue via the internet.

SOMETIMES IT is necessary to do things back to front and start with the end of a story. This one finishes in the early autumn frosts of northern Canada, amongst the stunted pines and endless impenetrable wilderness of the sub-Arctic tundra with the howl of the timber wolf providing a haunting sound track to the…

The end of an era for me.

I’VE NO idea if J. M Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, ever went fishing as a lad.  With nine siblings, one of whom died in a tragic skating accident, it may be possible that the young weaver’s son from Kirriemuir might have dropped a line into the waters of Kirrie Den while wiling away…

SKYE was majestic last week as only Skye can be when the sun pours down endlessly from the heavens.   Even at midnight it was still shining, casting an eerie orange glow from below the horizon into the velvet blue northern sky. We were sereneded by cuckoo, curlew, oystercatcher and lark.  Snipe thrummed in the evening…

THIS, or at least a very close cousin, is set to occupy my attention for the next few days in one of the UK’s most scenic fly-fishing locations.  Loch Fada on Skye is home to one of the most prolific mayfly hatches you are likely to encounter anywhere in the UK. They are in your…

The god of angling works in mysterious ways, as Gordon Mack learns from long and bitter experience.