River Tyne

Beginners lesson with Peter in the early part of the week it went well and I'm sure he'll soon be out catching fish.

Very early start on Wednesday to get up to the River Tyne on the Chesters Beat. Slow traffic on the motorway and A roads meant that it took a good while longer than anticipated.

Chesters is split into 2 beats Upper & Lower with 2 rods on each so it meant that we switched round  on the lower beat so we all had a chance to fish it.

River was very low and if we hadn't had to book so much in advance we would probably not have gone, if you're ever going to fish here take note of the release of water from Kielder reservoir, evidently you really want about a 9 cumec release and then wait 24 hours for the river to be at a good height (that's if its not been raining) best height for the river is between 1 and 1 3/4' . Still we were there and made the bets of it, some big fish were seen in the various pools but none of us managed to touch a thing, plenty of trout were rising during the day so we may have been better fishing for them.
Wading was interesting in parts as there are some large boulders/rocks so great care is needed when wading.

More lessons booked in for the coming weeks and I'm hoping to get time on Wednesday to go over to Platt Fields in Manchester to meet up with the lads from the Manchester Casting Club, it seems ages since I've been over.




Tight Lines for the coming week.

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Happy Clients

Helped out at local fishery on Friday with some instruction for a Corporate Day they were having, second year the clients have been.
A great bunch of people who despite having never fished before and the conditions being warm and sunny with no cloud cover they stuck at it.
It was just a shame that there were only 2 who managed to catch, but that's fishing for you.




Keeping busy continuing with my own practice on double handed rods as well as fitting in clients lessons (single handed), its been great fun and all seem to have enjoyed it and gained some insight into this graet sport of ours. Another lesson tomorrow and then its off to do some fishing on Wednesday with a trip to the River Tyne, fishing Chesters Beat on the North river. Never fished it before so should be interesting, hopefully we'll get a pull on the line.

Friday I'm planning to get a spot of fishing in up at Lamaload, one of my local club waters, not been up there for a while with being away so it will be good to see what's happening up there.

Already booked a few days up on the river Nith for July so hopefully the river will be in good form.

Tight Lines for the coming week.

Check out our late season course at Friars Carse Hotel on the River Nith

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Homeward Bound

Well the 3 weeks have finally come to an end and a great time has been had here on Anna Maria Island.

Rods were all cleaned and packed away when I took the last stroll along the beach to Bean point. The water was low enough to get out to what's left of the sandbar, about 2 feet of crystal clear water covering and area at least the size of a couple of football pitches.
We were soon followed by a shoal of permit who were following behind and picking up offerings from the sand that we had disturbed, if we stopped they just kept swimming round our feet.

We spotted some nice snook cruising through the back of the waves by and managed to get quite close to them before they darted of.

All of this and no rod to fish with, still it's all stored in the memory bank for when I'm back on this beautiful island in September.

Next task is getting some serious practise in with the double handed rod ready for the next trip after atlantic salmon.

Tight Lines to all fishing this weekend.

Check out our late season course at Friars Carse Hotel on the River Nith

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AMI - Part 4

Spent the day chasing tarpon, snook and bass down in Placida, Florida with  Leslie Holmes , had a blast jumped at least 7 tarpon a good few snook and even managed to move some bass all great fun on a #6 fly rod, small flies with a guy who really knows how to cast and make the fishing time enjoyable.

Scariest moment was when we spooked an alligator out of the reeds, then it had the nerve to come seeing what all the commotion was when the next Tarpon was hooked.



Check out our late season course at Friars Carse Hotel on the River Nith

For more photos and fishing course information visit us on our Facebook page Cheshire Fly Fish or web site www.cheshireflyfishing.co.uk or follow us on Twitter