Courses

Full Day Beginners (£250)

A comprehensive course aimed at getting you from novice level to basic competence. It covers these topics and a 2 fish ticket:

• Assembling equipment
• Tying fishermen’s knots
• Basic casting techniques
• Basic entomology (insects)
• Retrieval techniques
• Playing a fish
• Netting a fish securely
• Humane dispatch
• Catching and releasing

Full Day (£270)

If you have been fishing for a while and would like to learn the tips and techniques that will help you move up to the next level, this course is for you. It covers these topics and a 2 fish ticket:

• Double hauling
• Coping with longer leaders
• Casting directly into the wind
• Special casting techniques
• Delicate dry fly presentation
• Shooting a fly under trees
• Choosing leader length
• Choosing the right fly for the conditions
• Dry fly techniques for lakes and rivers
• Stalking techniques on lakes
• Reading the water for fish movement
• Catching and releasing

These courses is ideally taken one-on-one. However, we can also teach a group of up to three that you put together yourself. Note: All participants must be at a similar skill and experience level and will cost an additional £150 per person.

Half Day (£150)

Similar to the full day course but if you don’t need tuition on the full list of advanced techniques, you can take a half-day covering selected topics from the advanced one-day course. (The topics you want covered should be agreed by Steve in advance.) Note : All participants must be of a similar skill and experience level and will cost an additional £130 per person.

2 Hour (£70)

Brush up on any aspect of your casting and other fly-fishing techniques.

Tailored instruction and help (P.O.A.)

This might include

• Guided River Trout Fishing
• Guided Grayling River Fishing
• Tuition for small groups
• Specific personal tuition
• Tuition on your favourite river
• Fishing holiday planning
• Equipment advice

Gift vouchers available for all courses or amounts. Contact Steve for details.

Notes:

1. For whole-day courses, lunch (not included in the price) can be taken at a local inn. Let us know at the time of booking if you want to do this.
2. Whole-day courses run from 9am to 5pm(in the winter to 4pm(or dusk, for river trout or grayling), with a one-hour break for lunch.
3. For group classes, the maximum group size is 3 (2 for grayling).
4. Half-day courses run from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, or from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
5. The minimum age for children taking a course is 8 years. For children aged between 8 and 16, parents or a guardian are requested to be present throughout the period of instruction. River trout fishing and grayling fishing instruction are for adults only.
6. The price of a day’s guided trout fishing on a local river depends on the river, the beat, and the date. Please note that this offering is very much for experienced flyfishers only.