Autumn can be one of the best times of the fishing year. But it’s all too precious and fleeting, so how can we really make the most of it?

Friends who’ve fished with me in recent years will know that when I’m on the water in the shoulder seasons, I’m increasingly likely to reach for either dry flies or streamers. I’ll happily fish nymphs, of course, but I like the conscious gear change between the other two techniques – both involve hunting the fish, but reading the water in very different ways.

This means I’ve really enjoyed writing a couple of recent features for Fishtec – one on fishing dry flies at this time of year, and the other on streamers (in a stillwater flavour). If you’ve not seen them already, please do click on the links below:

• Dry or die! Floating flies for September trout
• Top tips for fry feeders

As I’ve recently been agreeing with my fishing pals, there’s nothing like this time of year, especially because we all know winter is coming. Get out there and fish while you can!

Interspersed with lots of other freelance copywriting work, I’ve recently contributed a few more features to the Fishtec blog. Once again, if you haven’t read them yet, please click the links and enjoy!

• The green menace: fighting back against invasive non-native plants in 2018
• Countdown to stillwater opening day: Fishtec’s review of the UK’s top 10 reservoir fisheries
• How to support the Wild Trout Trust

These past couple of months, I’ve been contributing articles to the (increasingly authoritative) Fishtec blog…

… on a whole range of subjects, from secret-weapon end-of-season trout flies to much more serious issues like invasive non-native species, and what we can all do to identify and prevent pollution in our rivers:

• Who’s the daddy? Fishing crane-flies for end-of-season trout
• Pacific salmon: the pink peril
• River pollution: how anglers can help

I’ll let the content behind those links do the rest of the talking. Please do click through to read them, if you haven’t already!