TROUT FISHERMAN ISSUE 505

BE INSPIRED
6 My fishing year
Paul Procter reflects on 2017, one of his most successful angling years
TACTICS
14 Battling the blues
Peter Cockwill is pleased that Holbury’s new management still offer blue trout
20 Let’s see if this works...
Jeff Prest meets an angler with a difference at Glenbervie Fishery
26 How to beat spooky trout
Craig Barr works out how to tackle spooky fish in a flat calm and clear water
FOCUS ON...
35 Teams of flies
Set up three two-fly approaches for winter stillwater trouting
WHERE TO FISH
41 UK waters
Four top fisheries to visit this month
44 Belize tarpon
Dave Lewis shows you how to catch ferocious tarpon on fly in Belize
50 Spotlight on...
Lincolnshire’s Toft Newton Reservoir
ADVICE
52 Advice Squad
TF’s experts help solve your fly-fishing problems
56 How to...
Select your first river fly rod. Paul Procter explains
FLY-TYING
61 Blobs & FABs
How to tie a deadly winter pattern
65 Flybox fillers
Russ Symons highlights his ‘unsung hero’ pattern – the Sparkle Cruncher
68 Flymasters
Peter Gathercole judges buoyant lures designed to be poppep up off a sinking line
72 Follow this thread
Russ Symons reviews the latest tying threads on the market
TACKLE
75 New gear
Robbie Winram reviews the latest tackle including rods, clothing and accessories
80 Fly-tying products
Loon’s Ergo fly-tying tools, squirrel and rabbit dubbings, dyed pheasant and a mini braid
OPINION & NEWS
74 Read on the fly
Two more fly fishing books under the spotlight
82 News
What’s new on the UK trout scene
84 Letters
Trout Fisherman readers have their say
87 Opinion
Rob Edmunds’ plea to save our reservoirs
88 Cockwill
Start making up your ’bucket list’ because life’s too short not to
90 New sponsor
Introducing Fordham & Wakefield as new sponsors of Troutmasters
92 Troutmasters
This month’s badge winners and catch pictures
96 Match news
Iain Barr passes on his tips from his successful 2017 season
98 Wading in
Jeff Prest examines the somewhat lost art of photographing fish
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