This hot and settled weather has brought the bass in this year. And with that the water clarity is good meaning they can easily see the fly. Nothing big on this ocation but took 6 fish juat below the rail bridge. Last hour of the ebb tide.
Fathers Day gift idea
Need a gift idea for Father’s Day? How about a fly fishing gift voucher. For just £75 gets him a 3 hour 1-1 lesson with yours truly. on the river Adur at Shoreham by Sea. The voucher can be redeemed anytime up until December 2018. Click on Booking at the top for details.
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Houseboat “Bunty”now ready for holiday lets.
After a lot of restoration and hard work our little houseboat “Bunty” is finally ready and taking bookings. Located in the river Adur estuary at Shoreham by Sea. This is a great location for the beach, water sports and fishing, South Down walks and cycling. Railway and buses to Brighton and London. Great eating and riverside pubs to enjoy in Shoreham town. Tailored fishing breaks can be arranged. With a large double and a single bed Bunty sleeps up to 3 guests. One can book through Airbnb or contact me directly through this site on the contacts page. Otherwise simply call Jo on 07709939120
Happy days. Howie.
Location BN435YH
Houseboat “Bunty” ready for boarders
Me and my partner Josephine are now taking bookings on our newly converted houseboat “Bunty” on Airbnb for holiday breaks or contact me for tailored fly fishing packages.
Another happy fly fisher
Howie Dodson was recommended to me by an angling guide and friend. I’ve been fly fishing a few years now but had never had any casting tuition. A corporate day and 20 minutes group instruction along with a lifetime of coarse fishing had armed me with the ability to just about put a fly on the water and for a while that had been enough. Of recent though I’d been getting more and more frustrated at my inability to present a fly well at range or come to that present one badly at range. Of course the harder I tried the worse it was.
Enter Howie. We met at Shoreham and after introductions i was asked to warm up by making some casts …. across the grass of a park next to the river. After a few minutes Howie came over and basically told me I was trying to aerialise too much line rather than shoot the line, he demonstrated and then it was my turn….revelation number one, i was immediately casting further with less effort. We then worked on rod position and trajectory to tighten the loops…more distance and more control. Next it was body position, my instruction on day one of picking up a fly rod had me standing square on and casting directly overhead, nothing had moved on from there. Howie now had me stood at more of an angle and doing so opened up my stance, my body movement and crucially the ability to watch the back cast and that was a huge revelation, a real ‘Hallelujah’ moment, throw in some line hauling and all of a sudden I’m casting a full fly line bar a couple of meters.
Howie achieved all of this along with some tweaking in an hour, he asked me if I was happy to finish at this point or would I like to do some more work on the water, now I’d never managed a roll cast and opted to have some more practice and tuition. Needless to say it wasnt long before I was roll casting and then roll casting into a full cast and achieving good long casts again.
I’m still not the worlds greatest fly caster but I am considerably better than I was before tuition and I’m now armed with the tools and knowledge to move on, practice and improve further. Howie was a great teacher who swiftly identified my issues, broke down my cast and rebuilt it, but showing me what I was doing wrong and what i needed to do to correct it, while keeping things light hearted and logical. I’m completely happy that it was money well spent, i will thoroughly recommend Howie to anyone I can and wont hesitate to use him again should the need arise.
Many thanks Howie.
Paul Coventry.
Another fly fisherman in the making
Thanks for the photos Howard. The lesson was great fun. Many thanks. The river session was excellent – tricky but it gave me good experience of a few different techniques. Now to practice a bit before I book another one.
Complete novice Ian Hamilton getting to grips with the roll cast on his first lesson.
Rod bending action on Buzzers
Arriving at my local lake yesterday I noticed a good hatch of midges coming off the water. So put together a leader comprising of 2 black buzzers suspended under a large buoyant dry fly. All spaced 4ft apart so I am fishing with 12ft leader. It wasn’t long before I got a take and after a great scrap, landed a good sized brownie. Just over 2 hours later I had landed a total of 2 browns and 4 rainbows and easily lost as many fish. The takes came on both buzzers and the last fish took the dry fly which I kept for dinner. Absolute magic and lucky timing.
Exciting news for 2018 learners
I am extremely lucky to have just been given access to two small, secluded trout lakes in Sussex stocked with quality rainbow trout. Where I can offer guided sessions to the novice, learner or improver at very reasonable rates. I will be putting a new package together soon on the main site booking page. Meanwhile please get in touch if interested. howie@flyfishingsussex.com
Tight Lines Howie
Too cold to go fishing?
Fed up with trying to light that old hand warmer? My partner bought me one of these. And so far, I love it .👍 Great gadget charger too
November sun and dragonflies
A few hours skive off in the sun pays off. Dragonfly nymphs scoring during the late morning hatch. Result: 3 rainbows and 3 lost. 
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