Farlows Blog and Advice

With rising water temperatures and low, slow rivers it can be a challenging time for salmon fishing, but Jonny Muir has some top tips to help you catch summer silver....

Nick Hart, is a bass fishing fanatic and wants everyone to discover this fabulous game species, check out this 'bass fishing for beginners' blog and make bass one of your summer targets....

2020 didn‘t exactly pan out as any of us expected but the Farlows team was at least able to get out and enjoy some marvellous fishing, here are some of their highlights...

Ian Welch is back in the Farlows kitchen taking a look at one of the finest of all game meats, venison. He includes a brilliant and highly topical recipe for a ‘substantial‘ venison Scotch egg as well as a few Christmas recipe suggestions...

Halloween may be going virtual this year but you should still make the most of your pumpkins! Ian Welch is back in the Farlows kitchen to show you how, with both sweet and savoury delights...

Farlows‘ globetrotting fly fisher, Jonny Muir, looks at those essential items he would not leave home without...

Lockdown baking became a 'thing' - or at least it did if you could source some flour, now everyone is baking and ‘proper‘ bread is back on the nation‘s menu. ‘Thank goodness for that‘ says Farlows' marketing manager (and regular cook), Ian ...

Farlows‘ team member, Jonny Muir, relates a post-lockdown tale of an evening session fishing for silver on Benchil, River Tay...

With the threats facing wild Atlantic salmon now more severe than ever, Jonny Muir presents a guide to the best catch and release practice...

For the next in our series of lockdown cookery masterclasses our resident cook, Annie Assheton, passes the culinary baton to Farlows‘ Marketing Manager, Ian Welch...

We are living in a changed world and are all finding innovative ways in which to manage our day–to–day lives. Cooking – baking in particular – is becoming increasingly popular and the Farlows team is spending a lot of time in the kitchen. Ann...

Awarded annually to the captor of the largest fly–caught salmon from an English or Welsh river, it is one of the greatest trophies in modern salmon fishing – and the 2019 winner is...