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A report by Bas Walraven

Last weekend i joined the Fly fishing school of a friend of mine for a 1-day course in (traditional) spey casting.
Last year i also visited this course but then i had to use a rod of the school. Because i bought a spey rod not so long ago i wanted to do the course with this rod as well to improve my casting skills.
Mike (the instructor) told me that the spey cast courses are already completely booked full for almost the rest of the year.
Obviously, lots of fly fishermen want to try this style of casting/fishing. Most people with double-handed rods in Holland use shooting head lines, and are not really familiar with real spey casting the traditional style (long belly Lines).
Spey casting is a casting technique used in fly fishing. Spey casting requires a longer, heavier two-handed fly rod, referred to as a Spey rod.[1]
Spey casting is used for fishing large rivers for salmon and large trout such as steelhead and sea trout. Spey technique is also used in saltwater surf casting. All of these situations require the angler to cast larger flies long distances. The two-handed Spey technique allows more powerful casts and avoids obstacles on the shore by keeping most of the line in front of the angler.

Permit: Day Permits From Keswick Post Office, Youdale’s Newsagents, Tourist Information Centre And High Hill Garage.
Species of fish at venue:
Brown Trout, Perch, Pike, Roach, Salmon and rare Verdace

For expert advice and guiding go to http://www.hemmingwaysfish.co.uk/ also Eric is a fantastic fly fisher and gives lessons at a reasonable price. Try asking him to take you fly fishing for Pike a day out you will never forget. 017687 78575/07771763067

The river Kyll flows through the Eiffel region in Germany and is well known for its Trout and Grayling
This was my first time to go fishing in the river Kyll. My friend Harry has been fishing this river for a long time and volunteered to ‘guide’ me. After a 4 hours drive we arrived at our hotel and already 30 minutes later the first fish was landed. This promised to be very good ! Unfortunately, the water was still rather high so the stream made it difficult to fish near the bottom…4mm gold beads hardly reached the ground. Yet, Harry was able to catch 5 fish this day : 3 brown trout, 1 grayling and a (surprising) char

After breakfast, the second day turned out to be very windy and casting was pretty difficult. But this day also brought me 3 brown trout and, unfortunately, i lost 2 real big fish because of line damage.
Harry managed to catch 10 brown trouts this second day !
This 2-day trip taught me a lot about the river Kyll and when i go visit there again at the end of this month I hope I’ll be prepared to catch more great fish !

“Don’t stay in one spot too long.” If a fish is rising and ignoring your fly, try another, and another. If they carry on rising but are plainly ignoring your offering despite trying a finer point on your leader and experimenting with different flies then you may do better at the next spot.

Tip on releasing fish back to the water.
Use the net to carry the fish back to the water and, choosing a suitable spot,
lower it into the water. Let the rim of the net down and guide the fish over the rim, facing into the current. Usually the fish will simply swim away strongly and no more attention is needed. Occasionally it will be necessary to cradle the fish in wet hands (always have wet hands when handling any fish or you will damage the fish), again with its head and mouth facing into the current until the fish is ready to swim away. When the fish has clearly regained its composure it will swim away.

Women and fly fishing (article courtesy of the New York Times)

Women are taking up fly fishing in record numbers, and the sport will never look the same again: waders, traditionally a drab green, now come in pink and purple.

“There is an explosion of interest among women that’s taken off in the last two years,” said Margot Page, the editor of The American Fly Fisher, the quarterly journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, in Manchester, Vt. “Many men fish to get away from women, but now they have to accept the galling reality that they can’t escape.”

Located off the A519 Eccleshall to Newport road, close to the Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire county borders, within 1 hour of Birmingham and Manchester.

Loynton Trout Fisheries provides three spring fed lakes totalling 12 acres, set in the picturesque countryside of the Loynton Estate. This fishery is one of the UK’s top small water venues, with fabulous fly fishing for rainbow trout from 2lbs – 25lbs+, great facilities which include ladies and gents toilets and a perfect environment in which to start or improve your fly fishing or enjoy a corporate day.

Fishery office 01785 284261. Website: Loynton Trout Fisheries.

Why barbless?
The trend towards fishing with artificial flies on barbless hooks is increasing each year. There are doubtless reasons for that – practical as well as ethical.

Why fish barbless in the first place? For starters, it’s easier on the fish. Assuming you’re practicing catch and release, backing a barbless hook out of a trout’s mouth is far less harmful than the tearing of mouth and jaw tissue which commonly occurs when using barbed hooks.

Furthermore, since hook removal is so much easier with barbless hooks, it requires that much less handling of the fish and can often be accomplished without removing the fish from the water. The cumulative effect is better survival rates for trout and other species of fish. Barbless hook and fly
There is another, frequently overlooked, reason to fish barbless which has nothing to do with protecting fish and everything to do with increasing your strike to hook-up ratio. Simply put, it is easier to achieve a solid hook set when using barbless flies because you are freed from having to overcome the resistance of the barb. Admittedly, a barbed hook will hang on to a fish better than a barbless hook, but you have to bury the barb in the tissue of the lip or mouth first.

Well Done for this lady caught on a red Gold Bead head Woolybugger