In This Issue | March 2012

On sale Friday, February 10th, 2012, Only £3.25

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  Keep calm and keep moving

  Let your salmon fishing stride ahead using these simple steps from Malcolm Greenhalgh.

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  Cabin fever

  Mike Harding is beginning to show worrying signs after a long, hard winter at the vice.

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  The imitative Booby

  Charles Jardine introduces a dark, drab Booby, the latest tactic from Farmoor.

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  The presentation leader

  Jeremy Lucas explains how he makes up his cast to fish leader-to-hand – the ultimate presentation style.

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  Holy No.2

  Mick Huffer ties the late Bev Perkins’ Holy No 2, a superb buzzer which can both attract and deceive when fishing deep.

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  Ulster sinking into the murky depths

  Northern Ireland is dragging its heels over EC-enforced river improvements.

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  Strike while the iron's hot

  Gwilym Hughes’ streamside secrets to make the best of the trout’s tastiest spring snack, the iron blue hatch.

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  Elastic fantastic

  Marc Griffiths demonstrates how his discovery of stretch cord has transformed his fly tying.

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  A man may fish

  Fiddler, Pete Clark, talks about his love of fly fishing, his flies and his ‘Troot tours’.

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  National selection

  Peter Lapsley examines flies and fishing styles across the British Isles and wonders why they are so different?

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  A case of over-inflated access

  Mark Bowler looks at why a legal ruling has gone against rafts on the Upper Tay.

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  The Valentine victory

  Sam Valentine discloses his special fly, the SV1, which caught Scotland's biggest fly-caught salmon last year.

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  A mass issue

  Oliver Edwards voices his concerns over the leader-to-hand revolution.

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  Best of 2011

  John Todd summarises the top-performing rivers during Ireland’s sensational season.

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  Hanging on air

  Neil Patterson introduces two new ducking and diving Corixa designs.

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  Spoilt in Shetland

  Mark Bowler adapts quickly to island life in this wild trout utopia.

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  Trout in the sky

  Andrew Herd says you haven’t lived until you’ve fished in the clouds, on Teesdale’s Cow Green.