As I sit here tonight enjoying a glass or two of wine I thought I would share with you the absolutely fantastic gift I received from my wife and son today.
As you may or may not know I have a great passion for angling and flytying books.
One book I've been after to add to my library for a long time was Patsy Deery's " Irish Mayflies." I'd almost given up trying to acquire a copy of it as everywhere I looked for it was sold out. I even contacted Patsy's son as I heard a rumour that he might have few copies of it but alas he got back to me to inform me that they'd all gone but he did take my details and told me he'd get back to me if any turned up.
To cut a long story short the book turned up today beneath our Christmas tree via Coch-y-bondhu books in Wales.
It's an absolute treasure trove of mayfly patterns compiled by Patsy Deery and photographed by Terry Griffiths. I've obviously not had much time to read it yet but did have a good look through it and managed to tie a few flies from it. I might give it a review in the future once I've digested the contents.
In the meantime here are a few of the patterns from it.
Oh and I even found a new fishing jacket under the tree too which I was badly needing for next season.
Top two flies are Donald McClearn's Green Mayfly No.1.
Bottom two are A Carra May and a Silver Drake.
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