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Sea trout like their cousins the salmon make their way upstream to spawn.
I was very pleased to be able to help out the Institute of Fisheries Management with their need for a sea trout image to grace the Spring 2016 cover of FISH, their very interesting members magazine.
Visiting likely locations to view and photograph leaping sea trout the last 3 years takes a lot of time and patience and there are plenty more occasions where nothing is seen than the few where I timed it just right. Still, having the chance to witness such a spectacular sight local to me in Sussex even just once a season makes all the cold muddy hikes across the countryside in the dead of winter worth it.
Zambuni PR organised a recent press day on the Orvis beat of the famous River Test in Hampshire. A collection of my fellow journalists and anglers braved the extreme conditions early on and were rewarded with some healthy brown and rainbow trout which were all returned. We also got to try out some of the latest Orvis fly rods and reels.
Wildlife Photography World is a brand new quarterly quality glossy magazine whose first issue has just been published for Spring 2016.
It features 120 pages of beautiful wildlife images from all around the world and I was very pleased for them to include my image of a Peacock Butterfly photographed last year at the RSPB's Pulborough Brooks reserve.
A tailing redfish - the stuff fishing dreams are made of!
Paul Sharman heads to Florida with his fly rod in his case in the March 2016 issue of Eat-Sleep-Fish magazine.
The Boca Grande Pass from the Gulf of Mexico into the protected waters of Charlotte Harbour beyond at Boca Grande in south west Florida is famous amongst specimen tarpon hunters. Triple digit fish arrive in the high season which peaks around June, feeding on crabs and baitfish being washed out of the bay. During this time the pass can become like a parking lot with dozens and dozens of drifting boats hoping to hook their anglers into a fish. While you could try a fly on quieter days it is really a bait fishery best suited to heavy gear in the strong currents. Save the fly fishing for hunting along the beaches for pods of fish and inside Charlotte Harbour itself. As much as I love tarpon, it is the other species that live in the bays, channels and flats of Charlotte Harbour and Pine Island Sound to the south that really get me excited and none more so than the bull of the flats, the redfish.
Click on the photo above to read the full story - "Collateral Damage" on the Sport Fishing Magazine website.
A hard-fighting fly-caught barramundi from Thailand.
This very nice specimen barramundi I caught on the fly in Thailand back in May 2015 made the news section of the August/September edition of top French destination fishing magazine Voyages de Peche who I write for occasionally.
I book my fishing in Thailand through my good friend and expert angler Francois Helias who operates the very well-known Fishing Adventures Thailand - tell him I sent you!
I was delighted to be interviewed by Media Kitty for their newsletter called The Instinct and talk a little about my writing and photography.
A sea trout leaps up a fish ladder on the River Ouse in the heart of Sussex
This recent image I took of a sea trout leaping up a fish ladder in Sussex this season has been published in the annual Winter newsletter of the Environment Agency's Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology team from the Solent and South Downs area.
The Winter 2015 newsletter contains lots of interesting news and information on all the main projects the Environment Agency team has been working on in the Solent and South Downs area over the last year and is well worth a read, with plenty of good photography to help illustrate the various projects.
You can read the newsletter online via the Wild Trout Trust website where it is being hosted by CLICKING HERE to view it.
Want to improve your photography - check out this top tips list I was asked to contribute to earlier this year on the SPORT FISHING MAGAZINE website.
I was invited by the Lee County Visitor and Convention Bureau which covers the Fort Myers and Sanibel area to attend and cover the 'World's Richest' Tarpon Tournament in Boca Grande, south-west Florida. The resulting feature article and photographs were published on the Fish&Fly website.
After seeing reports and photos from the world-famous Boca Grande pass tarpon fishery over the years, it was a great experience to be a part of it and look forward to returning to this beautiful part of Florida.
Click here or on the map above to discover more about the Fort Myers & Sanibel area.
There is nothing better than fishing with friends and when my buddy Steve Edge offered me a chance to fish a beautiful little Surrey countryside stream I jumped at the chance.
Check out his blog entry here of a fantastic days fishing and then do yourself a favour and have a look at some of his other brilliantly creative blog entries. There is a reason his Edge Design business is always so busy and apart from being brilliantly creative he is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Check out page 62!
This particular image was also published in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune
The shot was taken on board Conway Bowman's boat offshore from San Diego, California and illustrates his chapter on fly fishing for mako sharks there which he pioneered and still guides for in season through his Bowman Bluewater guiding company.
The Outdoor Writers Association of America is a professional body that brings together writers, photographers and other commentators on the outdoor world. I was very proud to have the cover shot and a portfolio inclusion in the May 2011 edition of their journal that is sent to all members.
Cover shot
The cover shot was of a bee busily gathering nectar on a brand full of May blossom in the spring sunshine.
Western bluebird in California
The portfolio image was of a male western bluebird that was perched conveniently in the open during a visit to Idyllwild in California.