In This Issue | June 2012

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  Top tactics for slow water salmon

  Stevie Munn discovers an effective technique for fishing a fly in slow-flowing ‘spinning’ or ‘shrimping’ water

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  Sewinmeister

  The irresistible sea trout fly which Glyn Freeman uses to good effect on a secret Cumbrian water

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  Secret Mayfly know-how

  A Mayfly hatch can often sort out the angler from the ‘duffer’, says Charles Jardine

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  River midges … and the giveaway signals

  Timothy Benn champions the importance of midge pupae on rivers, and tells us how to spot the give-away rise-form

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  Go wild in the UK for £2.50 a day

  UK passport schemes offer waters for all game species for £2.50 per day. Peter Lapsley explores ...

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  Highland float tube hot-spots

  Allan Liddle says the lochs of the highlands and islands are tailor-made for his float-tube, and leads us to his favourite launch-sites

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  Angling club of the month

  Aberlour AC offers superb sport on the Spey at sensible prices

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  Eye for the perfect body

  Neil Patterson ties his FunnelQuill, a dry fly for June that pulls the wool over trout’s eyes

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  Story of the Shrimp

  Igor Stancev sets the record straight on Shrimp dressing

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  Spinner to ride happily into the sunset

  Charles Jardine says that evening sipping fish require a fly that brings together a host of brilliant angling minds

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  Seeing is believing

  Mark Bowler finds there is always something new to discover ... this time it's fluorocarbon’s ‘other’ property

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  Parton’s Yellow Sedge Pupa

  Mick Huffer ties an ingenious pupal imitation of the day-hatching cinnamon sedge, a deadly tactic from mid-June on reservoirs

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  Harding’s theory of relativity

  Mike Harding explains why anglers’ time and measurements are elastic

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  A view from the chalkstreams

  Gordon Mackie's family involvement in the birth of the dry fly movement

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  The extraordinary Ordie

  From high winds to flat calms – Mark Sandison explores the range of guises of the versatile Loch Ordie

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  Back to celebrity status

  Salmon catches are on the up, but Galway’s stunning Erriff is no longer the sole domain of celebrities, says Mark Corps

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  Where now for SANA

  What will happen to Scotland’s rudderless, factioned angling governing body? asks out-going president, David Ogg

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  Reviews:

  Feathers and tying tips; a hook organiser; the new Partridge Stinger hooks; plus Atomsix rods, radical leader, leather rod-case, glasses, wading jacket and Xink