If you are heading down to Devon for your holiday and would like to experience either guided fly fishing or some fly fishing tuition then the Devon School of Fly Fishing is ideally located to take you on a fly fishing adventure!
For salmon fishing in Devon we have found that using a switch rod has been a big advantage for us and for our guests when we take them salmon fishing.
It is often thought that the best time to catch sea trout is at night time. This is certainly the case but there are also opportunities to catch them during the day too.
Sometimes having someone standing next to you when you are fishing can be a little unnerving at first but a good guide will ensure that his guest is put at ease and ready to have a great day on the water.
I like to think of fly casting as the transferring of energy. When it comes to leaders I prefer to see this process continue so that when we send our fly out to the fish that if we use a tapered leader then the energy can easily be transfered from the thick butt end of the leader that is attached to the fly line all the way to the fly.
If you are heading to the Taw and some fishing it is worth noting the byelaws for fishing the river.
Although the may fly hatch can’t be described as prolific as those seen on the famous fly fishing chalkstreams such as the Test and Itchen we do have a healthy hatch of mayfly in Devon too.
The two main rivers of Devon which contain grayling are the Tamar and the Exe. The tributaries of these rivers also have them, the main ones worth mentioning are the lower reaches of the Barle and Creedy before they join the Exe, the Tamar the Lyd,Inny and Ottery although the Read more…
The river Taw has had a revival in the last few years. It would have been easy to go the hatchery route but instead the River Taw Fisheries Association (RTFA) decided on improving access for salmon so that they could travel up the river more quickly and easily.
Sometimes it is easy and try and think just a little too deeply about what has just unfolded on the river. The fish at the end of the day has just three things it is interested in- food, oxygen and shelter and of course something else towards the end of the year.