Fly Fishing Outside the Box

"Fly Fishing Outside the Box, Emerging Heresies": Peter Hayes. A book to make you think, usefully, about fish and fly

Photographs

Photographs by Peter Hayes and fishing friends: copyright but not necessarily inaccessible

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Cowslips on the bank of the Derbyshire Wye

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Headquarters of the Cressbrook and Litton Fly Fishing club, Derbyshire

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King cups, Derbyshire Wye

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Stewart Crofts teaching Jim Hayes tenkara

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River Itchen, Hampshire, Lord Grey's original stretch

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River Itchen, Hampshire, Lord Grey's original stretch

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River Till in early spring, post-spawning.

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The Royal Oak, Great Wishford, Wilton Fly Fishing Club HQ for over 100 years

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The moment of the strike, Derbyshire Wye

1lb 8 oz Ovingtonsubsurface

Wild brown trout, River Itchen Hampshire

1st sight of Brightwater Ck

first sight of Brightwater Creek, New Zealand

2 yellowfin tuna sounding, Christmas Island

2 yellowfin tuna sounding, Christmas Island: Ronnie Butler

2nd day PM 4lbs4oz size 14 para H (4)

the propulsion kit of a 4lbs4oz Icelandic wild brown trout, took size 14 para hawthorn

3 lbs R 9A PICT0015

3 lbs wild brown trout R.Wylye

4 pounds 4 ounces river Wye rockface took hookey rat (6)

Approx 5lbs wild rainbow, Derbyshire Wye, took 'Ookey Rat

4.5lbs Rainbow Deep Creek Mesopotamia - Version 2

4.5lbs Rainbow Deep Creek Mesopotamia New Zealand

4.5lbwylye

4.5lb River Wylye, took caddis pupa

5 pounds river Wye (2)

5 pounds exactly, Derbyshire Wye size 21 Itchen nymph

5lb4oz 2nd day AM size 20 para hawthorn

5lb4oz Big Laxa Iceland size 20 para hawthorn

6lbs 4 oz Upper Mataura,1st MCJ fush

6lbs 4 oz Upper Mataura,First fish on the "MCJ"

6lbs 4oz Selwyn in the Rain - Version 2

6lbs 4oz River Selwyn, New Zealand in the Rain

7lb 6oz Wylye wild brown trout Petronella 2nd time

7lb 6oz Wylye wild brown trout "Petronella" caught at Wilton for David Nickoll, 2nd time

8 lbs steelhead Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

8 lbs steelhead Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

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crayfish picnic at Nin's Bin, near Kaikoura New Zealand, Jeremy Waters

12 lbs silver salmon Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

12 lbs silver salmon Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

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Classic wild brown trout, River Test (not many left)

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Bruce Creek, New Zealand

17in Till muskrax

17in Wild brown trout , river Till took "muskrax"

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18inWild brown trout, River Wylye, Langford, caught for Gordon Mackie

19 lbs 12 oz sea trout face on TDF

19 lbs 12 oz sea trout Tierra Del Fuego

20 lbs Atlantic salmon for dinner on the Rynda 1991

20 lbs Atlantic salmon for dinner on the Rynda 1991Stranded by bad weather

22in 4lb 1oz Till 010908 size19 condor nymph (3)

22in 4lb 1oz River Till 010908 size19 condor nymph

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24.5" Wild brown trout, River Wiley Wilton12june03

25 lbs salmon, Ponoi 1992

25 lbs salmon, Ponoi 1992, very cold week

25inX14.5in,7lb 5.5oz,proper Wylye fishR12 (3)

25inX14.5in,7lb 5.5oz,proper Wylye fish:WFFC club record, took mayfly spinner

25lb+ carp,Gatton Park,June 1973

25lb+ carp,Gatton Park,June 1973:Took free-lined lob worm

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Bruce Creek, New Zealand

27in x17in g clatford 4

27in x17in Girth River Anton, pectoral 17% body length indicates wild

28 inch steelhead Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

28 inch steelhead Karluk R,Kodiak island 1998

39o true March Brown Rhithrogena germanica R Usk,Peter Hayes - Version 2

true March Brown Rhithrogena germanica R Usk,Wales

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Grayling,49.40 cmX 30cm girth, Frome Dorset above Black Hatch 1998

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Grayling,49.5cm x 30cm girth, River Frome, Dorset

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grayling:51cm X 30cm girth, River Frome Dorset

76o Fisherman's friend, iron blue dun, rare on the Wylye April 2006 - Version 2

Fisherman's friend, iron blue dun, rare on the Wylye April 2006 -

Chironomid "gracilis" living up to its name, big Laxa Iceland

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Spring Creek, New Zealand, took caddis pupa after one hour

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Red spinner ( female iron blue)

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Small fish, happy man

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Stalking big trout in a small chalkstream, southern England

A good rainbow, Kulik

A good rainbow,October, Kulik Alaska

A huge Chinook, Trask River

A huge Chinook, Trask River

A huge king salmon for me, Trask River

A huge king salmon, Trask River, Oregon

Anchor, the grizzly, Kulik

Anchor, the grizzly, Kulik, Alaska

Andrew Caldwell Carnarven Arms

Andrew Caldwell Post-catch and release Carnarvon Arms

Automotive archaeology in NZ b

Automotive archaeology in NZ

Automotive archaeology in NZ

Automotive archaeology in NZ

Avon 0406 (4)

Hampshire Avon: beetle power

bass With skipper Mike Digby out of Fowey ?!973

bass With skipper Mike Digby out of Fowey 1973

Berry (2)

Berry Creek, New Zealand

Berry (15)

Berry Creek, New Zealand

Bow and Arrow cast

Bow and Arrow cast, Stephen Beville, New Zealand

Bruce Creek four pounder Clay bank 2001

Bruce Creek four pounder Clay bank 2001

c,Large Dark Olive Baetis rhodani R Wylye Stapleford

Large Dark Olive Baetis rhodani R Wylye Stapleford

Clarke Beazley,Canham,Wilderness ?1976

Brian Clarke, David Beazley, Stewart Canham, R Kennett,Wilderness 1976

Cressbrook & Litton after ,during rain (5)David Marriott

Cressbrook & Litton after & during rain, CLFFC Pres David Marriott

Cressbrook & Litton after ,during rain (5)David Marriott4

Cressbrook & Litton after & during rain, CLFFC Pres David Marriott

Dallas (2)Checks the wings - Version 2

Dallas Checks the wings

Dallas inspecting a streamer, about 1986

Dallas inspecting a streamer, about 1986

enormous Chinook, Trask River

enormous Chinook, Trask River, Oregon

Fat rainbow at Kulik

Fat rainbow at Kulik, Alaska

Frying Pan, Roaring Fork trip 1993 2

Frying Pan, Roaring Fork trip 1993 , Nigel Sturgeon

Frying Pan, Roaring Fork trip 1993

Frying Pan, Roaring Fork trip 1993

Glenorchy (3)

Glenorchy , New Zealand, Di Hayes

Glentanner burn 5th of March 4 lbs. 12 oz. (9)

Glentanner burn New Zealand 4 lbs. 12 oz. (9)

gravel fish and log fish

gravel fish and log fish

Grays 4th March (4)

Grays River, New Zealand

Grisly close to, Kulik - Version 2

Grizzly close to, Kulik, Alaska

grizzly side on, Kulik

grizzly side on, Kulik, Alaska

Harper R dry

Harper River, dry

HOGOF 19.5 in,3lbs (2)

Hook one get one free 19.5 in,3lbs (2) river Wylye

Young phalaropes on the big Laxa, Iceland

The upper big Laxa at Myvatn, Iceland

A nymph-caught large char, central Iceland, on a two-hat day

A large char, central Iceland, stalked and caught on a MCJ

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Jim Hayes with a Hampshire Avon pike

The author at home, banging on about something to Patrick Lloyd

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Tom Davis keeping low in deep mud stalking trout on a tiny Wiltshire chalkstream

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A very large grayling looking at me

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Icelandic midges at their worst

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Icelandic flowers

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Cotton grass, Iceland

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Yellow flower, Iceland

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My patent bug net with glasses

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Sunset over the estuary of the big Laxa, Iceland

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Bibio pomonas, Hatch coinciding with wild Angelica, Iceland

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Fish on in the nearly-setting sun, big Laxa, Iceland

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A handsome 4 1/2 pound chub, took blackberry-fly, River Wylye

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Giant Stonefly larva, Yellowstone Park

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Pale watery spinner, Derbyshire Wye

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Beautiful small brownie, Derbyshire Wye

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Grizzly too close for comfort, Yellowstone Park

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Drifting the Madison, Nigel Sturgeon up front

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Baetis on the Madison River

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Arnarvatnsheidi, Iceland, rather cold weather

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The osprey that flew over my head and took the trout I was fishing for, Henry's Fork, Last Chance, Idaho

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Henry's Fork Whitefish

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A fat rainbow on the nymph for Nigel Sturgeon, Henry's Fork

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Midnight in Arnarvatnsheidi, Iceland

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Camouflaged chicks in Arnarvatnsheidi, Iceland

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Simulium larvae on ranunculus, River Wylye, good trout food

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A salmon for the author from the Fljotta, Iceland

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a typical Brownie, from the big Laxa

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Wild flowers in New Zealand

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The camouflaged frog and a camouflaged fish in a South African stream

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Pink flowers in South Africa I think

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Oliver Edwards with a nice fish in Iceland

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Tom Davis catching a chub out of the bathroom window on a famous chalkstream in France, the Risle

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Oliver Edwards on the big Laxa, Iceland

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An Icelandic Wild flower

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Oliver Edwards landing a big trout in Iceland

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Icelandic Wild flower

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Icelandic wild flower

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A good wild rainbow off the Derbyshire Wye

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An extremely good wild rainbow off the Derbyshire Wye

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A crippled BWO under cover

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Litter and Japanese Knotweed on the Rhondda

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Orchid and primroses on the Derbyshire Wye

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Male BWO dun

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False, Late, or Summer March Brown, Ecdyonurus venosus

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an Icelandic salmon

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a Hampshire Avon barbel

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Heptagenia insignis leaving its nymphal shuck underwater

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A redfish off the Gulf Coast of Florida

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Fifi being admired by Bernard Cribbins

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Don't ask

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A New Zealand Spring Creek, waiting for the evening rise

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I think this is a Deleatidium Vernale, New Zealand

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A typical teenage wild rainbow on the Derbyshire Wye

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The school run

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Female BWO with egg ball, Serratella ignita, River Wylye

Isoperla Chitterne Brook

Yellow Sally, Isoperla grammatica nymph, Chitterne Brook, Wiltshire

Jeremy on upper Grey

Jeremy Waters on the upper Grey River, New Zealand

Jim Teeny and the Trask River team

Jim Teeny and the Trask River, Oregon Chinook team: Nigel Sturgeon, the author, and Jerry Melcher

Jim Teeny explains his nymphs

Jim Teeny explains his nymphs

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Grayling, 19 1/2 inches, River Till, July 1990

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Tony Wells fishing the river Till, June 2001, gesturing at a lost fish

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Tony Wells fishing the river Till, June 2001,Trout to hand

JW on Bruce Creek

Jeremy Waters on Bruce Creek, New Zealand

keep rod up

Richard Banbury on the upper Itchen

Kenai R. 50lb+ Chinook Aug 1981

Kenai R., Alaska, 60lb+ Chinook Aug 1981

Lake Ida (1)

Lake Ida Hut, New Zealand

The movers and shakers of the CLFFC closing day, 2013

Living rough, Kola peninsular 1991

Living rough, Kola peninsular 1991

Lower Lathkill with Richard Ward (12)

Lower Lathkill, Derbyshire, with Richard Ward

Lower Murray (7)

Spring Creek, New Zealand

Lower Murray (20)

Spring Creek, New Zealand

Lupins on R Tekapo

Lupins on R Tekapo, New Zealand

marmalade accident

The terrible 2001 marmalade accident, New Zealand

Mataura,Garston (6)

Mataura River,Garston New Zealand, Dax Messett

Mataura,Garston (9)

Mataura River,Garston New Zealand

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Jeremy Waters with a fish caught over the barbed wire, River Till

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Jeremy Waters with a River Till Brownie

Me and guide Jose front bottom in TDF

Me and guide Walking the pampas in Tierra Del Fuego

Me taking pic of Ted Gerken with 12lb Rainbow, Iliaska Copper R. Oct 1980

Me taking pic of Ted Gerken with 12lb Rainbow, Iliaska Copper R. Oct 1980

Me with a great sea trout, TDF

Me with a great 17 lbs sea trout, TDF

Mill lower

New Zealand Spring Creek

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Icelandic poppies on the river Tekapo, New Zealand

Nigel and me after drinking all the whiskey, Finland trip

Nigel and me after drinking all the whiskey, Finland trip

Nigel on the Rynda 1991

Nigel on the Rynda 1991

No Name,upper (2)

Sheltering Deleatidium, no name Creek, New Zealand

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angry bull hoofing dirt over shoulder, Grays River, New Zealand

Oreti Mossburn (3)

River Oreti New Zealand

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Lunch on the River Itchen, David Haynes, Jeremy and Roger Waters and the author

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Addressing an April riser on the upper Itchen

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Fish on, Grays River New Zealand

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Checking out the Glentanner Burn with Stephen Beville

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Grays River New Zealand

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Storm approaching over Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

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Welsh Usk in a hatch of true March Browns

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Fish on, river Mataura

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Barrie Perkins giving directions on the River Pomahaka, New Zealand

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Distant glacier, New Zealand

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River Till,weed,hat

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The author keeping off the skyline on no name Creek, New Zealand

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Fifi asleep after a hard morning helping to hunt river rabbits

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I think this may be the pale evening dun

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New Zealand Spring Creek, evening approaching

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Trout over Elodea canadensis

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West Coast, South Island New Zealand view

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Evening light over no name Creek, New Zealand – Owain Mealing in position

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Owain Mealing with a New Zealand Spring Creek six pounder

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Vorsprung durch teknik

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Cowslip time on the Derbyshire Wye

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Hawthorn fly time on the Derbyshire Wye

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Bulling the time on the Derbyshire Wye

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The gorge of the upper Derbyshire Wye

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Always carry cutting gear

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Bibio pomonas, Iceland

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Laugh? I nearly gave birth! ( Denise Ashton with woolly jumper down front of waders)

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Prolific water on the big Laxa below Lake Myvatn

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Don't fall in! Big Laxa, Iceland

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Time for geese to fly home, big Laxa, Iceland

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Icelandic sheep marooned on island

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Looks like the real thing

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David Lambroughton fishing the River Till

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The River Dart, Devonshire

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Tony Hayter on the river Wye in Derbyshire

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I think this is Speedwell, River Wye, Derbyshire

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Tony Hayter with a good Derbyshire Wye Brown

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I think this is a soldier beetle

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Tony Hayter fishing the Derbyshire Wye

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Yellow flower

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A very nice wild rainbow on the Derbyshire Wye

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A very nice wild rainbow, Derbyshire Wye, took reverse-tied GRHE nymph

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Owain Mealing and Larry McCarthy waiting for Corrib fish to move

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5 AM on Corrib

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Wild flower on a Corrib island

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Lunch on a Corrib island

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Caenis transposing on Corrib

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Caenis dun on Corrib

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4.50 AM on Corrib

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5.30 AM on Corrib

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5.40 AM on Corrib

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Caenis Dun on Corrib

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in ambush on corrib

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Caenis spinners on the windscreen on Corrib

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caption competition

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good char, central Iceland

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Pretty pink flowers, central Iceland

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Pretty pink flowers, char river, central Iceland

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Fish heads, cod and wolf fish, Husavik, Iceland

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sunset over Lake Myvatn, Iceland

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trout release, Spring Creek New Zealand

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Looking for a clearer spot, Spring Creek, New Zealand

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A very wet day on a New Zealand Spring Creek

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A good fish on the big Laxa in Iceland

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A really good landlocked char in central Iceland

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A hell of a fish for Dr John Smith from the big Laxa

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The author, Denise Ashton, and our guide Gummi at Myvatn

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They will have been upwardly mobile, no doubt

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Big Brownie being released

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Big brownie lying doggo

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A 6 pound wild brown trout from a New Zealand Spring Creek

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The trout has run down the pipe to the pool below

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The author with the trout in the net having followed it down the pipe

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Another fish on, the author having climbed back up the pipe

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…And a third fish being played

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…And reacting violently...

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It has to be stopped from going down the pipe like the one before last

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And I only just succeeded

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Flax flowers overhanging a good lie on a New Zealand Spring Creek

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A nice fish in the net on the Waitangitaona

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Trying to keep out of sight fishing the Hampshire Bourne

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21 inch rainbow from the Henry's Fork

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Kola Peninsular (Russia) Anglo-American exploratory group 1991

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The biggest wild brown trout I have ever caught, about 11lbs. took a "Hayestuck" mayfly on the River Anton, tributary of the Test

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A rare bird: Paraleptophlebia werneri, River Till

Pike, 19 lbs 12 oz

Pike, 19 lbs 12 oz

Pyramid orbweaver (5)

Pyramid orbweaver, a British citizen about the size of your thumb

rainbow on way home,wet day - Version 3

rainbow on way back to the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand:wet day

Ronnie's sea trout is bigger, TDF

Ronnie's sea trout is bigger, Tierra del Fuego

Wild Garlic on the Wye-can you smell it?

Lower Lathkill male Danica spinner on orchid

© Peter Hayes 2014