Apart from a few evenings after work as the nights get longer, not much to report for May in terms of coaching as the wife and I decided to take a break, well a mental break at least. We decided to cycle through Jordan. In terms of game angling it couldn’t really have been further apart. 43^oC; miles and miles of hilly desert; and the Dead Sea. Its ‘dead’ alright. (Fun though!)

That said we ended up one evening in a restaurant on the coast in Aquaba, famous for fresh fish. Looking down at the paper place mat something was not quite right so I took a picture. How utterly bizarre I thought!

I thought I would change my tact this month and focus on some game angling questions and give you something to ponder. It’s called ‘Gimme Five’. So here goes….

Fly of the Month
Choices are getting difficult this time of the year not just because of the sheer variety of fly, but often the fickleness of the trout that can be very selective to the point of distraction. This is the month of the old fly fisherman’s adage ‘Match the Hatch’  To be successful this month you will need to observe the trout’s behaviour in terms of whether they are taking surface adults or nymphs and pupae just below.
My choice this month is a Tadpole imitation for below surface in a lake – to the trout, no doubt the equivalent of a juicy sirloin steak!
On the surface, try out a variety of CDC patterns as these provide such a wide choice of ‘triggers’ in terms of size, shape and colours, to imitate the myriad of flies that are now starting to abound.

Be prepared to change frequently – so have plenty of tippet ready. But stay cool, slow down and what ever you do, please don’t forget the hat and sun block.

Stay Safe!

 

April was another memorable month.
It was my turn amongst the lads to book a trip. Having decided it should be some where on the Wye and Usk Foundation waters in Wales centred around Builth Wells, and having never been before, I sought expert advice from my good friend Frank Williams a fellow GAIA coach. Frank operates in this area and if any one should know where to go, he should. Always ask someone in the know before committing.

Having recommended two beats for the 5 of us on the River Irfon, a tributary to the Wye, we set off. The weather was glorious; the fishing was hard, but OK, catching specimen grayling and brown trout; and the friendly B&B the Llanelwedd Arms Hotel at Builth Wells run by Cath and Eileen lived up to its usual big breakfast reputation. But perhaps even more impressive was the efficiency, value for money and level of customer service excellence of the Wye & Usk Foundation. Their Passport set up for booking beats and roving ticket scheme is such a brilliantly executed scheme that it is thoroughly recommended for that ‘special’ day out.

W&U Foundation can be contacted on 01982 560788 or online at: www.wyeuskfoundation.org. Very impressive indeed and a splendid weekend, full of incident (see below!)     

On the coaching front, things have really got busy on weekends and some evenings after work. I guess the highlight was an experienced client who booked a lesson, wanted to improve but would not listen or accept constructive criticism about the many bad habits and faults he had developed over the years. This was further exemplified when I advised him to be careful of the slippery bank and to stand behind a tufty bush just in case. He didn’t listen and slipped into the lake with gravitational speed! (I could have earned £250 for this episode as the coaching video recording was really funny – I wet myself on dry land!). It was the first time any of my clients have slipped over, let alone ‘gone in’. It was also the first time I found myself questioning why he had booked a lesson in the first place if he was not prepared to take on board the advice. We got there in the end though! C’est la vie.

Fly of the Month
Hatches of aquatic flies and stricken terrestrial flies get more prolific as the weather warms up during this month. Choice of fly becomes a dilemma at times as during the course of the longer, warmer days fish may be feeding any where from top to bottom. You need to be flexible with choice and frequency of change in line with changing circumstances and feeding patterns.  However, for May there can only be one fly, the numerous Mayfly (Ephemera danica or E. vulgata) patterns including ‘suspenders’, ‘emergers’, ‘duns’ or ‘spinners’ to match the diurnal patterns. As a ‘rule-of-thumb’, duns in the late morning/afternoon; spinner in the afternoon /evening.
And for those apparently lifeless surface activity days or when the weather is cooler try leaded nymphs, such as Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear (GRHE) as they are probably on the bottom looking up at you!

Stay Safe!

A nice Grayling from the R.Irfon, Builth Wells	Winkling out those deep holes and runs. R.Irfon

 

March – what a cracking month.

It started with some grayling fishing on the infamous River Test at Wherwell. After a blisteringly cold day and no fish between the five of us, I decided to be anti-social and walk off in the late afternoon and try my hand at ‘reading’ the water. It was clear, but had that cold green hue about it. One could see the grayling but nought was going to tempt these beauties out of their lies.

Tossing all the traditional grayling flies that I had thrashed the water with all day in favour of the most shabbiest looking size 16 pheasant tail nymph (PTN), I cast it into the confluence of the main river and a small tributary. I swear the fly had not touched the water and I was into a nice 3lb. ‘brownie’ (oops!). Having returned the old scrapper back, I went for another walk that lead back to the car (I was bloody frozen) but decided to deviate off the path back towards the river. Seeing a fast flowing stretch, this time in the tail of a ‘seam’ meeting at the point of an island, just before cascading over a small weir, I again tossed (perfectly of course!) the  same fly (PTN) into the river aiming the fly to skirt around some broken water. Bang…off it went, another 2 lb+ brownie.  No-one else caught that day, so guess who was “Mr Popular”? I was totally unrepentant as it makes a change, not to mention the schoolboy excitement that also warmed me to my bones!

The ‘Scrapper’	The ‘Schoolboy’

The British Leisure Show was held at Windsor Racecourse (my work town) and GAIA (Game Angling Instructor’s Association) had a presence. This is an opportunity for us to introduce visiting folk to the sport. The main catch of the weekend was my friend, the RB Windsor and Maidenhead’s Mayor, Cllr Jessie Grey who sportingly agreed to ‘have a go’ with a double-handed salmon rod casting session on the Thames in support of GAIA.

Royal Borough’s Mayor ‘having a go’

Fly of the Month
Some of those late winter/early spring flies are still about but my Fly of the Month for April has to be a Sedge pattern, whether in the form of the larger Grannon or Deerhair Sedge. The books will tell you to fish them at night, but watch the scruffy little Deerhair sedge work its magic during the day too  when trout and grayling are tempted to rise and sup it gently off the surface. Great fun – can’t wait!

Stay Safe !

 

My goodness it’s still cold! Only one brave sole ventured out for a lesson with me during February.

Not deterred it was time to focus on…me!  So, I spent a fabulous Sunday with my peers at Meon Springs (Hampshire) for a training day and peer review. (Not sure what the collective term is for a group of wayward fly fishing coaches)

This is where we act out our bad habits (or for some of us, not ‘act’ – as they are very real) and we help each other drive out our demons that are the bad habits we regularly pick up.

It can be intimidating in front of your peers, but in a safe, supportive environment it is also incredibly constructive and a means of getting valuable honest feedback that can be used to correct those subtle faults we all too easily acquire, reinforce and then craft as new habits.

During such sessions we put each other through the paces in front of the Group and then analyse what we have seen, diagnose and correct. This month it was just that plus an in-sight into the new Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructor’s  (APGAI) syllabus. Wow it is daunting and only 9 months to get ready but it is one of my New Year’s Evolutions for 2010. Practise, practise… and then practise again.
I have to keep reminding myself of the coaching quote that goes:

“Remember anything you want
that’s valuable requires you break through
short term pain in order to gain long term pleasure.”
Anthony Robbins

Ummm…

Fly of the Month
My Fly of the Month for March has to be either the March Brown for rivers, fished midday and afternoon; or for still waters simple midge larvae (chironomid) as buzzers, emergers or adult black midge during the afternoon or evening with black or red patterns being favourites.
Last month’s fly (Orange partridge) should still do well.

Stay Safe !

 

If you look at last month’s Blog you’ll see I was fortunate to go to the fabulously frozen wastelands of Finland for some arctic adventures. Now I know this was ‘meant to be’. Having been back a few days we find ourselves in the midst of the coldest winter in decades.

Halliford Mere has been frozen over for days and solid to quite a few inches - ice fishing could easily be the order of the day. Yes, I was ‘meant’ to go ice fishing. Unfortunately I missed the opportunity to get ‘that’ photograph at Halliford. However, take a look below and see what happens when the wildlife can’t work it out either – a hoot!

So, its time to look forward to the Spring and have a go at making some flies in readiness for warmer days and evenings ahead. This gave me an idea – each month I’ll feature a ‘Fly of the Month’ which should help in getting familiar with the seasonal changes and what flies to have at the ready in that trusty old fly box.

Fly of the Month
It’s February, so for March and I guess because of the severe cold weather insect life will be both sparse and seasonally behind this year, go for a great all-round pattern in the form of the Orange Partridge, imitating stoneflies, spinners and midges. Fishing this fly late afternoon when the temperature has (hopefully) warmed up will also work for blue winged olive hatches.
Don’t forget the fleece lined gloves.

Stay Safe !

 

Northern De(Lights), Ice holes and Lazarus

We went away for Christmas this year to Finland for a ‘rest’. Well, mentally at least. And what a fabulous week trying our hand at new ‘experiences’ that included: dog sledging; cross-country skiing; ice mobiles; and snow walking. But, the best was ‘having a go’ at ice fishing something I always (previously) had wanted to try.

Having travelled up to the Arctic Circle, driven across a frozen lake flanked with snow clad pine forests under a clear blue sky on a snow mobile in minus 22^oC and togged up in a riding suit and a million layers of insulated clothes looking like Finland’s answer to the “Jedwards”, we stopped for lunch on a remote island. Suitably thawed out with piping hot zander soup we trekked through virgin snow across a brilliantly whitened barren wilderness.   

Then out came the hand augers to bore the 150mm holes through the 400mm thick ice and from no where came the kit - something that more resembled a kid’s toy, you know, one of those discounted items you collect from a petrol station when filling up the car. The fishing rods, reel and line with a size 14 hook was certainly a fore-runner of a frequent flyer outfit- no need to worry Orvis!

The bait was a maggot that was warmed up over a fire in a tepee during lunch and brought wriggling back to life before being pierced with a hook and immersed through my ice hole (that’s ‘ice’ hole). Did I catch anything? No, not even frost bite!

However, as I knelt in the super fluffy snow I did wonder how a 20 lb pike could get through a 150mm hole using my state of the art kit. Funny what tricks your mind plays when you have been refrigerated!

Somebody did though, Jeanette from Switzerland, the one person who didn’t want to go in the first place. A 50mm blackened minnow with pop eyes that on being lifted out of 0^oC lake water, instantly became a fish finger in -22^oC! But the miraculous thing was our Finnish guide who resuscitated the lifeless morsel with a massage and hot breath, bringing the newly named ‘Lazarus Fish’ back to life before it swam away in the icy depths.

Now that’s what I call a strict ‘catch and release policy!

STAY SAFE!

Apologies for my silence, but it’s been a very busy period at work and at home!’
October was a cracking month for me. End of the season – no way as I finally got to do some salmon fishing on the River Ettrick in Scotland.
For those of you who don’t know where it is exactly, it is in fact a tributary of the infamous River Tweed in SE Scotland.

Joining ‘the boys’ Mark; Iain; Paul O; Paul G and James - the crazy gang -we set about 6 days of salmon fishing.

   

BUT…the river was literally ‘down to its bones’. There were fish, plenty in fact, heavily coloured but trapped and waiting for rainfall before leaving their lies and certainly in no mood to ‘take’.

Cast and cast as we might, but only one fish was caught all week (well done Mark).  But as I say else where on this web site: ‘There’s more to fly fishing than fishing’ and boy was that true that week.

I’m looking forward to next year to hone those skills embedded in me by my own coach, Sue McNiven who I just happened to drop in and see en route. Single- and double-speys; reverse C cast; not to mention lessons on reading the river and ‘experiencing’ some new waters. Fun….

It pays to get a good coach!

Stay Safe!

 

What a stunning month this has been for coaching those folk who all really had an authentic passion for either trying out a new experience and stretching their personal ‘horizon’; or seeking to improve their own mastery of their existing skills; and then there were the few who (you know who you are!)were nothing short of obsessive in their quest to excel at this new hobby called fly fishing.

The relevance of this was driven home to me on receiving, as if by some deliberate act, an article entitled: “10,000 Hours To Mastery” that seemed to encompass and summarise the very different approaches and motivations of my clients.

The article (and I quote) stated:
“1 hour…                you know some basics 
10 hours…              you have a pretty good grasp of the basics
100 hours…            you are fairly expert
1000 hours…           you are an experienced expert
10,000 hours…        you are a Master”
(Michael Neill: newsletter@geniuscatalyst.com) It’s free to subscribe – recommended!

So, my message this month to my clients who ask;
How can I get to ‘your’ level?
My answer is: What level is that?

It’s a serious answer because I think the question needs to be ‘reframed’ along the lines: What level do you wish to get to? And/or, how much practice are you prepared to put in?

When I observe my own high ranking friends and peers who appear, to me, to have reached their own aspirational, often dizzy heights of perfection, I have to remind myself, their skill is only a result of a personal choice to ‘put in the hours’ and effort to get there. Also, 10,000 hours whilst daunting, is doable.
I guess it’s the actual time taken to do 10,000 hours that really defines the level of personal commitment.
Fly fishing is a complex skill that needs to be mastered, but it is no different to golf, learning a language, work skill, playing a musical instrument… you’ve been there!

Think about how many hours you had to put in between your initial interest in learning a new skill and your relative mastery of it. Over what period of time did you put in those hours?

In terms of fly fishing, how many hours have you have put in to it so far, and how many more hours do you need to put in to get where you want to go?  

Stay safe!

 

 

This month I thought I would focus on something that I refer to a lot in my coaching sessions; I also hint at it in my advertising blurb; and it is something that affects us all, good and bad, in every aspect of our lives … HABIT!

I coach all sorts of clients. Some have never fished before i.e. the innocent or virgin with no learned ‘bad habits’, only perceptions; the coarse/sea fisherman who display certain ‘habits’ some of which are not fully compatible with fly fishing; and the self-taught who generate and get into their own habits. There are those of us who fall into the category of developing our own unique bad habits and lose our edge as we develop personal skills irrespective of whether we have been shown and deep down are aware of the correct way.

We humans are habitual creatures, and once we establish our ‘set’ patterns, repeat them with something like 95% regularity i.e. what we did yesterday we will continue today. Therefore if you have ‘bad’ habits then 95% of the time you will continue to have bad habits each and every time you repeat the act or behaviour. The converse is true also.

How does this relate to fly fishing skills, lets say, casting techniques? ….You got it…it will remain bad. Actually it becomes reinforced, your sub-conscious way of doing things as muscle memory takes over.

Aristotle took this idea one step further by saying “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

The problem is we are only aware of our actions for, at best, around 5% of the time.

To change we have to be honest with ourselves and commit to wanting to change. It might mean being prepared to exposing our habits and this can be ‘painful’. It might mean a short-term struggle, to gain a longer term pay off translated into better fly fishing skills or competencies. Standing back and looking at ourselves is brave, often uncomfortable, but it can be the light switch to self-improvement. I guess the question is: ‘Are you prepared to commit to this in pursuit of your beloved past time?’

Using these principles for fly fishing, again let’s say, casting techniques means: Having someone look at your ‘habit(s)’. Having someone critically analyse and constructively point out your habits providing you with objective honest feedback and support.  Having someone show you and explain how to change a habit (that you are probably unaware of) for the better through demonstration, guidance and motivation. True, it might take time, but it generally reaps the rewards you have committed to. Ask some of my clients!

If I have in some way connected with you and made you remotely interested, do get in touch (www.adiposegameangling.co.uk) …. I reckon I can help.

Finally, on this subject, can I invite you take a few moments and consider this Poem that I came across recently. Thinking about it in the context of fly fishing it certainly struck a chord with me! But, it goes well beyond fly fishing……..enjoy.

"I am your constant companion.
 I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
 I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
 I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do you might as well turn over to me and I will do them - quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed, but you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people, and alas, of all failures as well
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine -- though I work with the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.  
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin – it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
 I am Habit."
(Author Unknown)

Stay Safe… Have Fun… Enjoy!

TG
7th June 2009

 

 

The first question I am repeatedly asked by a client after a session is ‘What kit should I buy as a beginner?’

To the newly initiated, the choice of tackle is seemingly endless. At the end of the day it really does depend on one’s budget and what type of fly fishing you intend to do. Typically (rule of thumb):

I would recommend a new starter goes for a ‘mid-flex’ action rod to start with.

The second question is ‘How much do I need to pay?

As generally in life, you usually get what you pay for.
RODS: prices range from around £50 up to £700.
I happen to currently use the Orvis Clearwater series at £149 for my clients as they offer a new entrant a good tool to start with at a reasonable price. Equally, I have an Orvis Helios series £599 and a SAGE SLT (both of which, for my style, are Dog’s wotsits!) at the other end of the scale.

Retailers often have several ‘packages on sale to help new starters. It would be worth going to where you can lend or try a few out and of course …… negotiate a deal.

REELS: Again, it depends on budget but ensure the size of the reel balances with the rod weight.
My choice for a starter would be:

So for under £200 quid you’re off! There’s also Ebay.

But please, don’t ‘over-look’ the most important bit of kit…GLASSES! - Never leave home without them (sounds familiar somehow!)

Stay Safe!
TG

 

 

An interesting month to start off the new season!
Halliford Mere is fishing superbly and it looks like it has every intention of getting better as the Spring bonanza unfolds.

Clients are coming in thick and fast and it has been a real joy to see folk progressing in a newly found hobby. The new client enhancement of catching their progress and development on video and sitting down after the session and going through it with individuals is going down well. I ask clients to take their ‘disk’ away and study it, practice and then come back for further tuition. It seems to work! Be warned it’s addictive.

On the personal front I attended two weekend training sessions hosted by the Game Angling Instructor’s Association (GAIA) at Carsington Water in Derbyshire. The training was to become certified as a GAIA Assessor. Thoroughly enjoyable and great to network with peers, picking up useful tips to pass on to clients and improve my own skills. Its absolutely essential to have a critical friend give you the once over from time to time; re-adjust and seek to continually improve one’s own skills. There’s always something new to learn with this sport.

Stay Safe!
TG

Not much to report this month on the fly fishing front. I was not here for 3-weeks, instead basking in my own sweat cycling around Tanzania and Zanzibar. Absolutely fabulous! A truly memorable experience, made all the better by the warm and friendly locals, wildlife and cultural experiences en route. Definitely recommended.
Interestingly though, I came across a travel brochure whilst out there that claims there is some stunning trout fishing to be had in the streams on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Try as I might, I could not track it down either whilst out there or on the internet since getting back. However, I have a local contact and guide investigating the claims. I’ll keep you posted as it strikes me that would be a challenge! (Forgetting the odd predator here and there).

Where’s there’s water, there’s generally fish… and no, I couldn’t stop myself trying to have a piscatorial exchange in broken-English with some Zanzibarian fishing brethren (see photo). That was also a challenge.

 

Stay Safe!
TG

 

 

Hi Folks! You know, now is the time to get ready for the New Year’s fishing.  Yes, its time to dust off those rods, make those flies (if you haven’t started) and get the tackle sorted.

If you have still not booked up for that lesson you always wanted … come on, now really is the time to do it, so that by the time the Spring arrives you have picked up the basic skills, or improved your techniques and can hit the ground running for the best bit of the season.

I had my first client of the year in January, once the ice melted and Halliford Mere became fishable again.
And what an up-lift it gave us both. For my Client (Martin), he fulfilled his ambition of taking on a challenge and learning a new skill and is coming back for more he enjoyed himself so much. For my part, it put that spring back in my feet that had been dampened by those ‘winter blues’. (Such a great stress buster). To get back out and start putting into place those New Year ‘Evolutions’ I was banging on about last month was great. For example:

There’s more to fly fishing than fishing!

 

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

Sitting here in the depths of the coldest winter in 27 years, with my local club water, Halliford Mere,  totally frozen over, (a sight, incidentally I have never seen), I have been contemplating how to approach the year ahead in the context of developing the AdiPose Game Angling coaching practice for you, the client. A few thoughts spring to mind.

Focus on New Year ‘Evolutions’. Thinking about it……

The question I posed myself was: How can I help clients get the most out of my sessions?

And, I’ve come up with a few thoughts for 2009:

Stay Safe…Have Fun…Enjoy!

 

 

I visited one of my favourite haunts this month, the River Taff in Wales.

For those of you who have never fished this ‘stunning’ river try and set a side a day in your diary. You will not be disappointed.

This river has been restored and must be high on the list of conservation successes.

The town of Merthyr Tydfil, once the centre of a thriving Welsh mining community, does not immediately spring to mind when talking of trout. But now you can catch an all but wild brown trout behind the bus station such has been the transformation.

Locals will tell you it used to run black with the washings of the nearby coal mines. Prior to that there was the iron foundry that caused the river to turn red and killed off everything as it hurried down stream.
But time has brought progress and now it is crystal clear, and teeming with life.
The hard fighting brown trout are willing takers of dry fly. Not large, but natures best, colourful, wily and natural.

Standing in the river with the sun going down behind the mountain in the  shadows of Aberfan, that tiny hillside village where so many young people died on that dreadful morning when the coal slag heap slipped into the school, I found it hard to imagine what it must have been like not so many years ago and how this beautiful stretch of river is such a different place to what it must have once been, a time when the thought of a single trout in this river would have been ridiculed.

Surely now one of Wales’ best kept secrets…till now!

For more information log on to: www.mtaa.co.uk

Until the next time…..Stay safe!
TG

 

 

What a stunning weekend at Blenheim! I am talking about the CLA Game Fair of course. The weekend that simply ‘was’.

84oC in scorching sunshine, brilliant backdrop of the Palace, lake and grounds, the breadth of the show and the huge variety of activities for everyone really did make for a memorable weekend.

The Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA) really deserve a huge vote of thanks for organising the Junior and Adult coaching sessions so proficiently and effectively. Well done guys.

For my part, it was great to be part of such a professionally organised, sociable and extremely popular event with so many interested participants. Indeed, the numbers speak for themselves.

GAIA put on 20 minute coaching sessions for both juniors and adults with around 30 GAIA qualified coaches doing their bit to persuade the public about the joy of the sport.

Still to be confirmed, it is thought we got through some 1100 plus sessions (!) over the 3 days. Certainly from the two days this young’ish laggard put in it was exhausting but very rewarding. I learnt a lot too by sharing experiences and technical tips with my peers and clients.
As for the guys who participated in all three days, I can only say ‘Well done’!

Some of the juniors were really amazing and I do hope they continue with the sport. We need to nurture talent like we witnessed. Fresh, committed, no self limitations and above all, clearly having fun.

What a day out; what an experience for all.  

Stay Safe…Have Fun…Enjoy!
TG

 

 

Question: Have you ever been sea trout fishing?
Wow! What a buzz. I joined four fellow fly fishers (Mark, Paul, Paul and Ian) over 3 nights of the 17th, 18th and 19th July sharing a farmhouse on the Abercothi Estate near Camarthen, fishing the Rivers Towey and Cothi.

What a hoot.  Fishing in total darkness; wading with a staff up to your waist in strong rivers; feeling the bottom with your feet; learning to measure that casting distance by ‘feel’; and honing up your senses to every conceivable noise. This is spooky stuff especially when things go bump and splash in the night all around you.

As for the fishing? The words that come to mind are: ‘surreal’; ‘bang’, blackness; snake fly; ‘ferocious’; anticipation; quietly; exhilaration; different and…. a lot of swear words!

These ‘travelling’ sea trout are incredibly strong on the take and quite stunning in looks too under the headlamp. Such amazing stuff and an absolute must for every fly fisherman.
Go on, give it a go, you will not be disappointed. (photo gallery)

In the meantime perhaps I’ll see you at the CLA Game Fair at Blenheim Palace on the weekend of 25-27th July 2008.

Catch you later.

Stay Safe…Have Fun…Enjoy!
TG

 

 

Can you believe we are half way through the trout season?

So far, it has been a fantastic season with all my local fishing venues fishing well, particularly Halliford Mere my club water. If you have not visited it yet, honestly, it is time you did. If it’s a ‘pass out’ you need, then there is a fully licensed restaurant on site to lure the seemingly uninterested!

On the coaching front it has been very busy, at weekends and after the ‘day job’ in the evening. Have you noticed just how much the day job can get in the way when you are having fun?(!)

Well done and thank you to all my clients. Without exception they have done so brilliantly. It never ceases to amaze me how much latent talent there is amongst the sexes, all age groups and backgrounds. Take a look, we have put some of them in the web site Photo Gallery under ‘Happy Clients’ (view).

I must also say thanks to my nephew Zayn who has continued diligently to construct the web site. There’s a load of new stuff on the web site e.g. useful tips, photos, reviews and signposting, with still plenty more to come over the next few weeks. Watch this space. I would be interested to receive your feedback and even more interested to listen to your suggestions as to areas that could be improved.

If you know of anyone who wants to have a go at fly fishing, why not give me a call. Just contact me either On-line or telephone 07766 933430. I guarantee they will be hooked.

Catch you soon!
TG

 

 

As usual, Good Friday is living up to my expectations, rain and wind! So, no fishing today! Perhaps it will relent by Easter Monday.

This month has been interesting as we start off the new season.

The web site is developing rapidly with new material being added daily. We have added a few photos in the picture gallery relating to the venues and a dedicated fish gallery drawn from shots taken whilst diving in the Red Sea. This is meant just to add a slightly different dimension relating to their world and what we all need to respect and conserve.

Clients are continuing to enjoy the coaching sessions and boy there’s some real talent out there. Well done and thanks to the three Stephens and Andrew.

I actually went fishing myself at Halliford Mere this week, the first time this year. It was nice to discover that after all the coaching I could still fish!

Halliford Mere is fishing so well at the moment. An array of nymphs, damsel nymphs (14’s), buzzers and bloodworm are deadly.
The fish are the best quality I have seen in a long time, stunning condition, fully finned, full of fight and not averse to ‘tail walking’. Great fun to be had.

Do me a favour…..spread the word about the web site!

Catch you later!

Stay Safe
TG

 

 

Hi!

Thank you for connecting to this brand new AdiPose Game Angling web site.

This web site is being designed for you, the user, to enable you to access directly, quickly and easily high quality, professional advice and tuition requests or, to signpost you to other useful information.

It could be your start to casting a new horizon.

You will find a wide range of materials on this site that will equip you with all you need to know to get started and/or become highly proficient with the wonderful ‘art’ of fly fishing. Learn to fly fish in spectacular surroundings and enjoy one of life’s simple pleasures, yet best kept secrets.

Cast your eye on the various tabs, browse around and access what ever you like. If what you are looking for is not there, contact us and let me know. If you have a comments, suggestions or constructive feedback…likewise, let me know.

Over the next few months this site will grow and develop into a valuable resource for you, covering a range of diverse and varied subjects that will conjure up enough interest and self motivation that will encourage and persuade you to simply ‘have a go’ and then….get hooked.