[Linda]

Linda Straghan Site Administrator

Welcome to Trout and Fly. I’m Linda from Armagh in Northern Ireland. I have been fishing over 15 years. I ran a pike fishing club with almost 70 members and a few years ago I made the move into fly fishing, I haven’t looked back since.

In my first year fly fishing I won the Troutmasters fish off at Dungannon Park Lake taking me to a place in the final at Grafham Water. Don’t ask lol

Last year I fished the Sheelin Open in Ireland with 238 anglers taking part. I managed to come 4th winning a rather impressive ‘state of the art’ Lawnmower, yes lawnmower and a lifejacket.

I am a member of the Irish Ladies Flyfishing Team and I had the pleasure of fishing the very beautiful Lake of Menteith in Scotland at this years International in June. I even managed to catch fish .


I consider myself very lucky to have fished some great places all over the UK and Ireland and with some amazing people. I joined Trout and Fly over 2 years ago and although being the only girl on the site at the time I was only ever encouraged and helped along the way by a wealth of people who have become my very good friends. Now we have many female anglers from all over.

Trout and Fly is a great place to share information on different fishing venues, meet new friends to fish with and swap ideas with fellow anglers. This forum is for everyone, from the novice to the competition angler. For male and female, young and not so young.

I hope you enjoy the site and if I can help with anything just ask.

Linda

[campbellbaird]

nice wee write up linda, i know the work you and the rest of the T&F team put into the site, and would like to thankyou all..

i will make an effort to post some of my favourite patterns on the fly tying section as promised .. so stop shouting at me linda lol . campbell

[ally]

Good to see some pics, are they two different days, as the weather looks misrable in one photo? Is that Maddy in the background?

Ally

[Linda]

Thanks Campbell for the kind words.

Ally, yes two different days. The first was at Sheelin when I came 4th - such a sunny day and the 2nd was at Eskragh and well spotted thats our Maddy in the background I caught a fish first cast on a green peter - remember Maddy

[bobby]

a nice introduction Lass helps get to know you
even when we have'nt met yet Hiya
bobby
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[THEPETHFLY]

hello.
have you and bri fished at weekend ?
just wanted to ask if trout and fly are meeting up anywhere in the north east this winter, or any comps i can enter nearby. hope you lot have got good thermals coz its bloody freezin at the mo. you should try and get everyone to whitton or caistron one day.

[maddy]

Hi

Yes Linda I remember - we were on borrowed rods!!!!! and the batteries were running done on the camera. Nice photos though.

Maddy