The UK fly fishing for brown trout season has all but ended, depending on where you live; but don’t hang up your rods just yet, as there are still some great opportunities for you in the coming autumn.
Fresh Rainbow Trout For Dinner? These three beauties were caught in a small stocked lake in Scotland by a complete beginner during his first fly fishing lesson.
Many of the large still waters like Graffam, Rutland and Eyebrook are still open until late October and can offer some fine fly fishing from the banks especially near the weed beds and along the margins.
Some of the bigger fish patrol along the edges chasing fry, so fish for white minkies or black and green tadpoles, or if all else fails try the cat’s whisker or any other fry patterns are always worth a try.
Note too, that dry flies are always worth a cast on warmer day’s, so just keep your eyes open for a hatch and look for feeding fish.
In just another few weeks time, those of you who live near southern chalk streams will quite possibly be out looking for grayling. However, grayling are not just found in the south of England, many Midland and northern rivers have excellent stocks.
In fact, from December onwards you can fish the upper Tweed for grayling and many other Scottish rivers.
A list of potential rivers to fish will be on this website very shortly; so register your details and you will be the first to hear some of the news and views of the grayling season.
Finally, pike fly fishing will really get under way from late October onwards, so get tying some of those monster flies. And if you have trouble casting a big heavy fly, I strongly suggest you try using a double handed rod; it really will help you get over that troublesome bankside vegetation.
UK Fly Fishing Lessons With Tim Gaunt-Baker
I shall be running some grayling and pike fly fishing trips in November and December; the provisional dates are as follows:
Grayling Fly Fishing:
- South of England - 18th & 19th OR 27th & 28th November 2009
- North of England - 4th & 5th OR 9th & 10th December 2009
Pike Fly Fishing:
- 21st or 29th November 2009 or 12th december 2009
- any other dates by arrangement.
The rivers that we will fish for both grayling and pike fly fishing will be confirmed on booking.
- Cost will be £75 per head
- Only 4 people per day
- Register your details to keep up to date with confirmed dates and other news
NB. To register, go to the homepage and find the red box on the right of the page that says, “NorfolkFlyFishing News”.
Enjoy your fishing tight lines.
Brilliant site! Just thought to let you know that the page looks broken on Opera Mobile Browser.
Thanks, I’ll look into it.
Tim, Hi. I used your good services about 5-6 years ago for fly fishing lesson at Narborough with my son. I notice the ‘sea trout’ tab on your blog/website but there is no further information. Can you advise of any such opportunities or contacts to fish for same in area? Thanks.
HI Gordon,
Nice to hear from you again. I have caught sea trout off the Norfolk coast, usually in the estuaries. They do run up the Norfolk rivers but not in any great numbers. The other problem is getting access to fish for them as most of the rivers are syndicated. Wales or Scotland would be the best places to go to catch them. I have some sea trout fishing in the borders of Scotland available in May if you would be interested. Please contact me if you would like more details. Cheers ;0)
I know there are some better lakes to catch some crappieclose by here or in the vicinity. All of my fishing buds have been snagging some in medium size fishing ponds. What I’m looking for is large waters that have lots of different fish. It would be great to have some choices. I’ll be looking for more info. Thanks.