Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fly tying is supposed to be the game angler’s favourite winter pastime. While temperatures drop in the rivers and the ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

I was a proper fair-weather angler last weekend, greeted with teeming rain when my alarm went off to go chase pike, so I kept the water- proofs dry and had a lie in. By the time the sun came out on ...