12 Essential Flies for a Beginners Fly Box!

It's enough learning the basics of casting, watercraft and fly fishing technique when first tacking up fly fishing. Then you realise the choice you have to make over fly patterns you need in your box.

More than a little daunting to most! The good news is you don't need thousands of flies, in fact just twelve will do for over ninety percent of days. A great basic selection from which you can build, as your experience and knowledge of waters you fish increases. Check out our latest article 12 must have flies for beginners!

If you have any comments on the selection including your own choices, be sure to post them here for everyone to see!

Tight Lines

Steve

Fishing Report 9th-17th April 2007

Right now we are pretty much where I left off in the last report. The weather has been amazing, my freckles are starting to join up forming my very own tan and the fly fishing is great!

I've been busy with fly fishing tuition most days at Loynton and Watermark, both of which fished very well. Floating lines with buzzers, scruffy damsel, leech and PTNs picked up fish for everyone, the best a 6.5lb rainbow in mint condition for Mark Coupe during a weekend break!

Remaining days were taken up guiding on the river Coln, where clients landed caught an average of 14 wild brown trout per day. Fish have been loath to take dries so far despite increasing hatches of midge and large dark olives, prefering to munch shrimp and olive nymphs. A few trout were caught on F fly and parachute adams, but most have been taken on HE shrimp and PTN.

Good sport has also been had at Bushyleaze, Willington and Carsington fisheries, where buzzers and floating line tactics have accounted for many fish in the fine weather. The same tactics have caught well at Marton Heath, Danebridge and Cound.

On the big fish scene Lechlade and Loynton are producing good numbers of doubles, though stalking at Lechlade is made rather difficult by the heavy algal bloom currently present. It is a case of either waiting for a big fish to show high in the water and right by the bank or fish the hot spots blind.

Tight Lines

Steve

Fly Shop Update

As of today March 1st our fly shop has been updated with a number of flies and the range of sizes for many patterns increased.

To ensure you have the key flies this spring go to fly shop.

Tight Lines

Steve

Fly Shop Now Open!

Yes I know I've been talking about it for what seems ages, but at long last we have gone live with the on-line fly shop!

To start with we are selling a small range of our own flies, designed and tied by us, plus other accessories. The range of flies available includes patterns for fishing blind and a number of specialist stalking bugs for clear water fly fishing. The aim being to offer you guys unique products that compliment our fly fishing tuition and clear water sight fishing.

Go checkout the range at our fly shop. Be sure to leave any comments you have here, it's always great to have feedback!

Tight Lines

Steve