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Your profile says Bedfordshire- why not hit up cornwall or South Wales instead? On my local rivers the dry fly fishing is on big time, maybe you could even get a week camping near to some chalkstreams ;) *cough* mayfly *cough*

One of them shots has to go in the phot comp @TeeDee surely? Brilliant creatures aren't they.

I've been on a cruiser holiday to Inverness and back along the Caledonian, we tried lots of lures and targeted the pike too but the only success we had was on worm- this was mid April mind.

Wow great idea with the knife/grind shape! I know Broch has mentioned food prep but to me it looks like a cross between full on bushcrafter and a delicate wood carver. Fantastic point on it!

Now your asking! I've never really noted it before- I know I definitely collected and made some early September. I think they will be out earlier than that though. Once you have your eye in for the seed pods you'll see them everywhere and they are very easy to collect

The seeds make a brilliant mustard later in the year :)

Wild strawberry shoots - excellent tea :)

Eyeballed em- but I wouldn't recommend it. The edge is slightly convex, which is useful for some corner cuts, but a flat bevels is much more useful for long sweeping cuts, which I use a mora 106 for now.

First time on worm for me, not the last, plenty of bites and 6 nice brownies landed all around 1 to 2 pounds :)

Thanks bud- I actually bought both recently, both excellent books

Same temp but only 3 to 4 mins works well for that, but to be honest the pure oil is so slow drying I just put a thin layer on at room temp and leave it a week or two before use. Regarding the baking for colour, a lady named Deborah Schneebli Morrel has done much experimenting and I follow her...

I use it purely for colour change- I dry the spoon after carving in a cool spot in the house for a week or so before finishing. I lightly oil the wood with pure tung oil before baking, this stops too much moisture coming out and speeds up the colour change process so that there is less chance...

A first for me in two ways! I can highly recommend the kayak spoon style for beginners, it's very quick and simple to carve, and strong to boot. Alder a great wood to carve with, soft enough to be easy on the hands, yet dries strong unlike willow, very similar to birch, I'm impressed with the...

Good shout!

Raspberry tea tonight- good flavour similar to bramble but not quite as nice IMO, didn't have as nice astringency to it and a little bit more vegetal.

Lots of raspberry tips locally, I'll give that a bash cheers RV :)

Probably around 95C- about 30 seconds after boil :)

Tea from fresh bramble shoots is excellent :) really reminds me of green tea. Nice astringency to it.