Steve Taylor getting to grips with the Roll and Overhead casting techniques. He came to me a complete novice to fishing yet in just 3 hours he gets enough fly fishing skills to take away and hopefully get involved with a trout or two.  For info click on the Tuition and Booking pages.

A fine March day spent fly fishing a team of buzzers ends with a cracking 4lb rainbow.  A lean but powerful fish. Plus a good hatch of Sedges too.

Skived off for a couple hours trouting yesterday morning. Arrived at the fishery to find I had the place to myself. LOVE IT!    Anyway, walked down to the water as the sun was just starting to warm nature up.  Which brought on  a hatch of big black midges. So on went a team of big buzzers. Hopefully the right size and colour?  After a few casts I started to get pulls but not really taking confidently. I wondered, maybe the buzzers were to big?  I swapped the point fly for a size smaller and carried on fishing. Bang! a hard take and the fish was on and I soon netted a small but perfect rainbow. A few casts later, another positive take and this time the fish tore off across the lake several times. After some careful playing and adjustment of the drag on the reel the fish came to the net, then jumped out and tore off again. OMG!  It eventually gave up and I landed this lovely 4lb rainbow.

Love buzzer fishing 🙂

First day back on the water with a nice little rainbow and a 2.5lb brown. Nice start to the season me thinks. On a beautiful March day.

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Tight Lines. Howie   www.flyfishingsussex.com

Sunday was a lovely warm October day so I made a trip to my local lakes. On arrival I sat and observed the water. There was no evidence of any rising fish although there was a good hatch of dragonflies taking place. Luckily I had recently tied a few nymphs (like the one in the photo) so a good time to put them to the test. After a few cast along the reeded margins everything tightened as this cracking rainbow trout grabbed the nymph. Like the real nymphs these are big flies about 40mm long. I also tie them in green.

I took my neighbour (Romain) for a lesson today. Sometimes from the off, you get a feeling about a person and then you have to wait to see what happens next?

Romain was a complete novice to any type angling. Then after the 3 hour lesson, he turned it all around to someone (I feel) able to take himself off fly fishing with a basic understanding of the tackle, the over head and roll cast, knot tying and what ever I could throw at him in this short space of time.

Mastering the cast.

Great day out on Saturday with the lads from the http://www.sussexflydressers.org.uk 

A blustery day made it difficult seeing the crafty takes on the fly. However we did manage to connect with some cracking fish.

Cracking Sunday morning, surface action on dry Daddies. Nothing happened at for the first 2 hours and was running out of clues to which fly to try next. I assumed as fish were not rising they must be deep and fished away with sunk flies. Sitting having a coffee and a think about leaving, a fish rose, then another. The water suddenly came alive although no visible hatch was going on. Looking through my box of dry flies I chose a big bushy Daddy. First cast. Wallop! A nice rainbow. Then 2 more and finished with a cracking brownie.  Lesson learnt. Don’t keep flogging the water just sit, wait and watch.

The take

The prize