URBAN WAYS FLY CASTING LESSONS

Happy Birthday Tony

 This was a very nice Birthday present from Tony's wife Zoe, A day out with me at John 'O' Gaunt trout fishery at King's Somborne.

  Zoe phoned me for a surprise birthday present for her husband Tony and a treat for her son Jason.

He had only done sea fishing in the past and always wanted to try fly fishing, Zoe asked if I could give them some lessons on a peaceful lake, I knew of the perfect lake, it is ideal for the beginner and the more advanced with a good stock of good Trout.

We started the day by showing them how to set up the rod's, of which I suppied, they were very surprised with the weight of them, as they were used to using sea rod's, once I had explained the setup and the fly's, we made our way to the small lake, the water is very clear with plenty of fish of about 3-4lb.

We started with the over head cast, they picked it up quite quickly but I must say Jason was a bit better than his dad Tony.

We had about 2 hours of coaching then started fishing, I set them up with a May fly nyph on the advice of a fellow fisherman  and on Jason's second cast he had one on but played it a bit too hard and off it went, oh well more fish in the lake.

It was a perfact day for fishing a bit over cast and warm but the fish were being a bit fussy we had plenty of follows but no takes changing the fly had no effected but we carryied on, one good thing was that their casting was getting better as Tony proved he had a very good cast with a good result a lovely trout that put a big smile on his face Well done Tony

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY