Fishing Report at June 1st 2024

By late May rivers were fishing well, with good hatches including the start of the Mayfly season. Plenty of opportunities to dry fly fish, particularly during afternoons. Mornings have remained stubbornly chilly mostly, resulting in nymph fishing being most productive before an early lunch and good dry fly sport. June is looking very busy happily […]
Fishing Report May 9th 2024

Our lessons on the lakes have been highly productive for clients during recent weeks while rivers ran high. In recent days, rivers at long last have come into there own as nature quickly catches up! Good fly life on lake and river are getting fish feeding up in the water. On the lakes, a bounty […]
Fishing Report March 2024

March started our 2024 beginners fly fishing course program. While many people take lessons throughout the year, our beginners courses suit others who prefer the social element of joining a small group. As can be seen in the above image, it’s an active day and lots of fun! The occasional day during March provided opportunity […]
The Inside Line Spring 2024 Edition

Welcome to our Spring 2024 edition of The Inside Line! Delivering seasonal fly fishing news, tips, articles, videos, podcasts, reviews and more to you. Note – All feature links below will open in a new browser tab! With spring being the traditional start of fly fishing historically, we thought, let’s pack this edition with some extra […]
Dry Fly Fishing Lakes

Dry fly fishing on lakes is an often ignored technique. While it can be less effective than fishing subsurface most of the time, on the right day, it can be the way to go. When you do get a take, especially up close like in the video, it’s awesome fun!! This video clip was filmed […]
Late Winter Fly Fishing Report

The first two months of 2024 certainly gave us some varied and challenging weather conditions. On a positive note, we should have plenty of water for the rest of the year! When conditions made sense we’ve run some casting and fishing lessons on the lakes, which are fishing really well. It’s a great time to […]
The Inside Line Winter 2023/24 Edition

Welcome to our Winter 2023/24 edition of The Inside Line, delivering seasonal fly fishing news, tips, articles, videos, podcasts, reviews and more to you. Note – All feature links below will open in a new browser tab! Feel free to share this issue using the “Share This Post” tool available on this page. More on the […]
October 2023 Fishing Report

It’s late October and our Stillwater fly fishing is epic! From now to the end of the year is the best time to start fly fishing and a great time to advance skills on lakes. Streamers, nymphs and dry flies have all been taking fish at times during the month using a variety of techniques. […]
Fish Location

Are you fly fishing when waterside or are you just casting? If there are no fish where your fly is, it’s the latter! So how do we locate feeding fish? Take a look at this video from Steve to help you identify the holding water, taking you a step forward in the process of joining […]
Fishing Report for May and Early June 2023

As the weather slowly warmed week by week, so fly life became more abundant and trout responded. Stillwater fishing hit a sweet spot where fishing is good and weather is very pleasant to be outdoors perfecting your fly fishing. This is great because lakes are a great place to start your fly fishing journey and […]