anyone into flyfishing?

VimFuego

there's a venue just down the road from us that looks pretty good value and I've always fancied having a go at this. Any good or recommended books on the topic?

mike_l

See if your local venue has someone onsite, or regular who can show you the basics, of casting. It's a lot easier to pick you if someone can point you in the right direction, rather than trying to learn from a book.

I haven't fly-fished in years, but have a few flies you're more than welcome to if you would like them.

VimFuego

thanks mike, I may take you up on that. Though I picked up a load of vintage fly fishing tackle a looooong time ago which has a load of flies in it. No idea what's what in there, but they're all really good for catching fingers...

ESBlonde

Apparantly there's a good book on the subject by J R Hartley.







O. K.  I'm looking for my coat godammit.

mike_l

Sure, no probs.

Looking on the bookshelf, I have a book which you can have if you'd like. It covers more than just fly-fishing, but has quite a good section on it. 

Drew_TNBD

Oh wow. Search Youtube for flyfishing. So much hilarity.

VimFuego

we do have a couple of fishing books knocking around (being 2nd hand book dealers we generally have books on most subjects), if you can tell me what it's called I may already have it.

mike_l

@ESBlonde, you did make I smirk.

VimFuego

ESBlonde said:

Apparantly there's a good book on the subject by J R Hartley.







O. K.  I'm looking for my coat godammit.

as I understand it, the book never existed but they wrote and published it after they saw the success of the advert. You couldn't make shit like that up...

VimFuego

Drew_fx said:

Oh wow. Search Youtube for flyfishing. So much hilarity.

I'm currently watching one by a couple of seem to have stepped off the set for stepford wives. The woman is actually quite scary.

Col_Decker

I've never done it but I too want to give it a go. Looks a splendid way to spend an afternoon.

Having my first go in a couple of weeks with some of the lads from work. Then after that we're off sea fishing.

Everything caught will be cooked on fire and eaten. Proper man day.

VimFuego

yup, sea fishing is one thing I want to take up as well, have to wait for the tourists to go home tho, the seaside is off limits for the next few weeks.

mike_l

Col_Decker said:. Proper man day.

So why are you going???  :-O ;-)

VimFuego

shhhhh, he's the bait.

mike_l

VimFuego said:

yup, sea fishing is one thing I want to take up as well, have to wait for the tourists to go home tho, the seaside is off limits for the next few weeks.

Sea fishing is covered in the book I've offered you too.

bertie

Tamar lake or Roadford ?

VimFuego

roadford.

bertie

I can legitimately say  "I remember when all this was fields........"    they were building the reservoir when I left  IIRC

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I've been a keen flyfisher for many years and have fished all over Scotland in that time.

I would heartily recommend getting a few casting lessons early doors.

Learning can be a frustrating business and being shown the basics can really make a big difference and get you fishing more effectively instead of hopelessly thrashing the water and scaring every fish for 10s and 10s of square metres of water.

Do you have tackle already or will you be borrowing?

If you tell me what type of fishing you'll be doing I can perhaps recommend some gear.

I'm also incidentally offloading some gear ATM, but don't wanna turn this into a spam thread.

Tight lines,

Paul.

VimFuego

it does have a brand new look about it. Freaks me out as well, driving along the top of the dam.

bertie

friend of mine, his bro and dad were big into 'lake'  fly-fishing - they used to go to Tamar  for rainbows'  big'uns too (10lb + easy)

my dad was uber good fly,  lots of split canes, but that was 'river/stream'  stuff,  after brown trout