Countryside and Autumn

For ya'll guys that are stuck indoors, time for a day off, of a sicky which ever...The conditions are amazing and have been for a couple of weeks. Not the best for driven shooting but spot on for deer stalking etc. I have lived here for around 15 years and this has to be one of the driest Autumns I can remember...Tip Get out and enjoy it!! Looking at the weather forecast, looks like the leaves will be gone monday afternoon, with 2 days of rain and wind, that will be it!

Just a bit of a reminder....Fallow hinds come into season Nov.1, give us a ring, we have loads of deer stalking around....and estate guns to use.

For those that are looking for that fantastic driven day...We have a cracker of a bargin £3800 for min. 150 bird day, all hospitality, gun bus everything...Date Nov. 18 first come first gets...Our day at the beginning of the New Year at Holywell is gone!
We was there last week and had a great day, the team of guns had a great time and we had a great time with them...Hope to see you guy soon!

Quick shotgun tip: If you are shooting winged game,ie Pheasants..and can't seem to connect. Try a couple of fixers, shoot with one eye open, focus on the bird, keep the gun moving. but most of all mount the gun, with the stock touching the cheek first. Give that a try, a fellow gun gave me those tips last week when I just could seem to get on them.

Thanks for your time and get out there and enjoy it, before you know it, it will be spring...

Happy shooting!

Lincolnshire Driven Game!

We have just had back to back days Driven Partridge and Pheasant shooting here in the Lincs. Wolds. Living here I take it for granted, but if I was to say we have both Traditional driven and High bird shooting all with in just a few miles of each other, giving the gun exceptional value for money, and people living in London, less than 2 hours away.Also, a big bonus is we are that quite a bit drier than the west of the UK. Not saying we don't get our far share of rain, but in general its much drier. And when out shooting and wanting to have a great time, cold wet windy rain can really at times change the mood.
Friday our clients shot at a Traditional driven shoot, producing challenging Partridges and Pheasants, a little gem of a shoot, only the locals know about the shoot. Needless to say, everyone had a great time, with plenty of sport for all.
Saturday, High bird shoot, in the Wolds of Lincolnshire, with some of the Partridges and Pheasants just to good for the guns, again great time had by all. The two days went by in a flash, its now sunday night and time to start next week.
There are still days avaiable for some Great Sport here in the Wolds, if you are interested, drop me a line at Bryan@Sportingagent.com

Oh, the Fallow bucks are rutting like made here, don't about anywhere else, and some nice bucks have been taken.

Hope everyone is enjoying some sport in the first part of October, please get out and have a good time, cause it soon will be February 1!

Shoot straight,
Bryan

CLA GAME FAIR

It hard to believe that it has been 3 weeks since the Game Fair, time is just flying. Some say it was their best Fair ever, others did not attend, due to the economic situation. We must all agree it is pretty spectacular in any ones book.
You can bet if you had that many football fans together, there would be 100's of police, police dogs, you name it it would be there. Last year in Lincoln, Lincoln football team was playing somebody, and there was 30 police escorting 20 lads to the local pub, then escorting them to the match, and around the town there was loads police. Now I know why my council tax goes up double the rate of inflation....But hey, if it is football nutters causing problems, thats ok cause its football....If anything remotely came close to that at a GAME FAIR...you can bet the government would be calling for a BAN! We all know this will never happen, I don't know about you but the only Police that I saw was directing traffic. To all you Field Sports enthusiasts, that is something we all should shout about. We don't cause problems, we don't take ££ out of the system, we add to the economy.
Looking at the Game fair on that point a few, it is always a huge success, where over 125,000 like minded people get together, have a good time, share a drink or two, do a bit of shopping and dreaming, loads to eat, and never any trouble. THE CLA GAME FAIR IS ALWAYS A HUGE PH SUCCESS!

Sportingagent.com blog-TROUT Fish and Thanks to my Dad!

Trout, Brown or Rainbow, sometimes we forget about this fantastic sport, especially on the fly. I can remember like it was yesterday, I was around 11-12 fishing the upper reaches of North Mills River in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. My dad a few weeks earlier we had went to a Trout Unlimited, fly casting day for kids, but as of yet I still had not caught a wild trout in mountain river. I had missed a few, and caught plenty of trees in the process, but my dad was really good and kept right on saying, "your doing the right things, the fish are hitting the fly, you get him one day!" The way me and my dad used to fish was, we would take turns on the holes, if I fished this hole, he had the next and so on. Well, as I came up to this hole, wasn't very big, typical WNC trout river, I cast the tail end of the pool....nothing. So my next cast was up to the head of the pool, right where the bubbles stopped, fly "Quill Gordon" fly rod, a cheap Eagle claw fiberglass rod. The fly floated down about a foot and BAM, the trout took the fly, this time and did not try to rip its lip off, and just lifted the rod, and we as on...This was of course before digital cameras, before disposable cameras, and my mum was the only to use our camera, but I wish I had taken a pic. cause from that day on I absolutely love dry fly fishing for trout!! It is amazing and if it wasn't for my dad, who is an amazing dry fly fisherman in his own right, and getting me hooked into fishing, no telling where I would be now. We had many years of going fishing, and most of the time he caught more fish, but he is suppose to he is DAD. So to all the Fathers that have got someone into fly fishing, I salute you and if I forget, HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

Pigeons, Trout and Quail!

This time of the year is always a bit quite on the wingshooting in this country, and the Fields are so grown up that Roe stalking has just about stopped. But the dry fly for trout is just heating up! Up and down the country the rivers are coming alive, and the brown trout are feasting on the Mayfly hatch. Late in the evening with the water at the precise temp. these flies are coming the the waters surface just before they fly off, for their short lived life. In a couple of weeks the Seatrout will start showing, and again great summer sport!
But for the Sports person not to interested in fish, except on a plate, now is the time to look at some Fantastic Wild Quail Shooting
And Argentina, at a SPECIAL PRICE $299 PER DAY FOR DUCKS,GEESE,PIGEONS and of course DOVES
And before you know it, Grouse, Partridge and Pheasant will be back in season. So things are not all that quite!

Sea Anglers

Here is another Great Idea from European Union, not...they are proposing that all sea anglers have a record of their catches and file the forms to the Government..(CA newsletter)the plan is to include the recreational sea angling as part of the national quota...Angling is a form of relaxation and I am sure a few fish for the freezer, now it is becoming a job! But that is the EU for you, if you are like me and think this is a crazy idea, and a waste of money and time, we can petition Number 10, by asking the Prime Minister to resist the proposed changes at by CLICKING HERE!


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Salmon Fishing in Ireland!

We have had our first Salmon to the bank this year. First time ever the client had been to Ireland, caught the fish as the water was falling, and this morning! WACK, fresh bar of silver! Nice Fish on the Fly! Phone call from the Ghillie, that this was the first fish of the year for them. They will now have fish till the end of the season!! The estate practises Catch and Release, but he hooked the fish deep in the gills, they had to kill it. Won't go to waste, fresh salmon for dinner.
Ireland still has great Salmon Fishing, what have they done that we have not, or should it be what have we done to take the salmon on the brink here in UK.

Needless to say, Extremely Happy Customer