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Fly fishing tuition covering Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Wiltshire.
Fly fishing lessons, bespoke fly fishing courses, guided fly fishing days for various species of fish across the Southwest of England and corporate fly fishing days.
All of our fly fishing sessions are designed around your specific requirements, whether you are a complete novice or a more experienced fly angler and delivered in an informative but relaxed and friendly manner.
What can you expect to learn with professional tuition?
As a beginner you will learn all the basics from tackle selection, casting, tactics, entomology, playing and landing fish, safety and environmental awareness.
As an intermediate fly fisher you will learn more advanced casting and fishing techniques, also cure any casting faults you may have developed. All this will help you improve your catch rate.
If you are an experienced fly fisher on a guided day out you can expect to be taken to the correct location for your chosen species of fish and shown the specific tactics to give you the best chance of catching your quarry.
To get impartial advice on what tackle will suit you.
Professional tuition is the fastest way for you to learn and make your fishing more enjoyable.
Forget the stresses of everyday life whilst learning the art of fly fishing amidst the beautiful scenery of the West Country.
An unexpected visit to the brilliant @manningfordtroutfishery for a short session on a stormy day. The quality browns were in a feeding mood, putting a proper bend into the rod. Top tips if you're planning a visit, keep moving until you find fish, vary your retrieve, if it goes dead change fly colour, fish an intermediate line to keep your fly in the zone for longer as there's plenty of depth now the lake has been de-silted. Most importantly, hang your fly at the end of your retrieve, you get a lot of follows so don't be too eager to re-cast. #flyfishing #guidedfishing #flyfishinglessons #flyfishinglife #flycasting #trout #browntrout #rainbowtrout #grayling #onthefly #flyfishingnation #outsidedays #salmon #seatrout #dryfly #nymph #Snowbee #flyfishinglife #river #stream #lake ... See MoreSee Less
With the pike season upon us, it's out with the old and in with the new regarding reels. The old reel was so bad that I wouldn't even give it away, it's going straight where it belongs, in the bin! #flyfishing #guidedfishing #flyfishinglessons #flyfishinglife #flycasting #trout #browntrout #rainbowtrout #grayling #onthefly #flyfishingnation #outsidedays #salmon #seatrout #dryfly #nymph #Snowbee #flyfishinglife #river #stream #lake ... See MoreSee Less
I'm not saying it was wet out there for today's guiding but I've just taken my socks off! 🤣#flyfishing #guidedfishing #flyfishinglessons #flyfishinglife #flycasting #trout #browntrout #rainbowtrout #grayling #onthefly #flyfishingnation #outsidedays #salmon #seatrout #dryfly #nymph #Snowbee #flyfishinglife #river #stream #lake ... See MoreSee Less
At this point in the year, it’s a bit of an in between time for me, the grayling and pike fishing has come to an end but the river season is still a couple of weeks away. With the need to scratch an itch, I planned a spur of the moment trip to Chew Valley …
Big brown trout and glorious sunshine were the order of the day on Saturday’s Vale House Kitchen beginners fly fishing course, which I was hosting at the awesome Manningford Fishery. If you have never fished at Manningford Fishery before, I urge you to take a trip, it’s a really well run fishery with good facilities …