Fly Fishing Tuition
One of our members Trevor Knight, is a UK licensed Professional Game Angling Instructor, (GAIA) and is available to give fly fishing coaching if required.
Topics to be covered in any instruction can include the following, depending on the extent of the clients existing knowledge.
Safety issues
Equipment
Tackle selection
Ettiquette
Rules and regulations
Rivercraft
Life cycle of quarry
Basic entomology
Fly selection.
Fly-casting would include: -
Roll cast; Overhead cast; Side Cast; Reach cast; Steeple cast; Parachute cast; Reverse cast; Line mending; Single and Double Haul cast.
His fees are 40 pounds per hour for the first hour and 20 pounds per hour thereafter, during the same session, or 160 pounds per day.
He is happy to teach two members at one time to enable them to share the costs or a family group of a member plus spouse and/or a child.
He can be contacted by phone on 01386 700 806 or by E-mail
Trevor also spends about six months of the year fishing in New Zealand and if any members require any information or assistance in this regard he would be happy to advise. He will be returning from New Zealand and be available after 26 th April.