Open Day 2021
In July 2021 Siblyback Flyfishers Association held an open day at the Lake where anyone interested was invited to have a go at Casting, and Fly-tying. Snowbee’s Simon Kidd came…
Techniques, accounts of fishing days and related matter of interest to fly fishermen and club members
TEFF Qualifier at Siblyback
The first part of this account is from the TEFF website concerning the above event: The South West Lakes Trust, Siblyback Lake hosted this weekend’s AT-TEFF Bank Qualifier. A light…
May 2019
I arrived at Siblyback about 4pm on Wednesday and met up with Paul, a member of Siblyback Fly Fishers. We were both hopeful of some good sport as another member,…
Return to the Orkney’s
It’s been a long wait to get back to the Orkneys mainly due to Covid which scuppered a planned return. This time I was also going to fish on Shetland…
Orkneys 2018
I was desperate to fish the Orkneys for the brownies but had to somehow fit it in with also going to South Uist the same year as well. How could…
10th March 2019
The weather, more particularly the wind has been making things difficult this week, so it was Saturday before I was able to visit Siblyback. There seemed to be a small…
Beetles on the menu
June 2019 Fished Thursday evening. There were a few other anglers at the water and a couple of other season ticket holders arrived whilst I was tackling up. They both…
Start of 2019 season
I knew there had been a very good stocking of fish over the previous two days, so was very keen to get down there after the long lay-off. Car was…