Tag: nature

  • 🇧🇦 Bosnia — More Than Just Fishing

    🇧🇦 Bosnia — More Than Just Fishing

    I knew this trip was going to be good. But I didn’t realise quite how much it would stay with me. ⸻ Meeting Ado From the moment we met Ado, it was obvious this wasn’t just a job to him. Fishing is his life. As a boy, he tied flies and repaired broken rods —…

  • Fishing Southern England’s Chalk Streams

    There are rivers… and then there are chalk streams. Clear, slow, almost impossibly clean water winding through quiet countryside. Gravel beds, waving weed, and fish that you can see long before you ever cast to them. Fishing southern England’s chalk streams isn’t just about catching fish. It’s about precision. Patience. And doing things properly. Because…

  • Why Every Man Needs Fishing…

    Why Every Man Needs Fishing…

    There’s something about fishing that’s hard to explain. On the surface, it makes very little sense. Standing in cold water, casting the same line over and over again, waiting… often for nothing. And yet, for those who understand it, fishing becomes something far bigger than just catching fish. It becomes essential. Modern life doesn’t stop.…

  • 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau — Raw, Wild, Unforgettable

    🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau — Raw, Wild, Unforgettable

    There was a different feeling about this one from the start. Excitement… mixed with something else. Call it trepidation. But underneath it all was something much deeper. A childhood dream. ⸻ A Long Time Coming Ever since watching John Wilson’s fishing programmes as a boy, Africa had been in my mind. Those scenes — wild…