Sportfish open weekend

I will be at the Sportfish Open days this coming weekend 11th and 12th May with Tenkara Centre UK.
I will be doing a couple of Tenkara demonstrations and we will have a stand there as well. Come along and have a go at casting with a Tenkara rod.

Tuition a plenty!

Lots of tuition in the pipeline, fully booked up next week with a good variety of lessons from the guys training for qualifiactions to complete beginners to doublehanded spey techniques.
Hope the weather doesn't go downhill!

Spey casting

Great lesson yesterday with John from the Ribble Valley. John has been salmon fishing for a few years now but wanted to improve his Spey casting. First I did an analysis of his current technique and style and then systematically introduced a series of changes to achieve the objectives.
Great credit to John he adapted and changed things very quickly and so the improvements were accepted readily. In our half day lesson we covered the basic roll cast followed by the double and single Spey in addition to a snap T and snake roll. So John is now much better equipped to handle all weather variations and fishing conditions and was casting very very well. A bit more personal practise and job done! Great lesson!

Not beaten just weather beaten!

All things return to normal (whatever that feels like!) tomorrow with hopefully better weather. Lessons booked in for a few days now. At the fishery on Thursday then on the Ribble Friday doing a Spey lesson. Not be able to get onto the river for a while looking forward to it.

North of England Fly Show

I will be at the North of England Fly Show in Sunderland tomorrow (Sun 10th Feb) with our Tenkara Centre UK stand.
Come along if you are in that area and are interested in Tenkara or fly fishing generally.

Entomology for Fly Fishers

The 2013 courses from the Fresh Water Biological Association have just been released.
The Level 1 and 2 courses are  invaluable for anyone taking river fishing seriously
see here for the link to all the info http://www.fba.org.uk/fba-training-courses

The Tenkara debate..........

The debate on 'Tenkara' continues with opinions varying from the real enthusiasts to the its only a fad brigade. Like it or not we generally follow what's happening in the states and the main supplier in the USA has just done a deal with Orvis to retail it's Tenkara products. So at least there Tenkara is approaching mainstream? Will it happen here who knows but what I do know is that Tenkara has definitely allowed me to catch fish that I am certain I would not have done with Western tackle. Will I give up the western stuff, hell no! But I will be using Tenkara whenever I feel it is the best approach in the given conditions. To learn more look at my little film here www.tenkaracentre.uk

British Fly Fair International

The BFFI is this weekend at the Stafford Show ground junction 14 M6. I will be there launching the new Tenkara company that I am a director of - Tenkara Centre UK and we will be displaying and selling our new ranges of Tenkara rods, leaders, flies and accessories Should be good fun and busy! If you are coming along to the show drop by and say hello.