All quiet on the SWFFing front.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:28 pm

Seems very quiet on here.....Whats everyone upto???
Regards Dave

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:39 pm

waitng for spring dave.just tying new patterns of flies .simple pattern like a few tubes . give it another month and i wiil be out again .getting real bored now.mick

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:50 pm

Tell me about it mate....I had a right disastrophy when I was down last...Was taking my rod apart and it was stuck well fast and broke the tip section, I came over feeling really sick worried

Luckily I took it back and they rang Vision while I was there and they said no prob we'll send a replacement out big grin

Top result!!
Cheers Dave

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:10 am

Got 2 Fly Rods, 2 fly reels with spare spools floating line, intermediate line and sinking line. Just got to get someone to take me under their wing and show me how to cast,

Oh nearly forgot abot 600 flies.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:17 am

Blimey all that gear and don't know how to use it winking

Give it a couple of months and I'll come over the Lancs coast and have a chuck with you. No good now as I don't think there's owt about....Been out a few times when I was down Hampshire, not a thing!!! I was on the Mullet Fly Fishing forum though and a lad in Irland had a Thick Lipped Mullet the other day, Gallway I think it was.
Cheers Dave

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:29 am

I agree,very quiet.
Ive just been working and tying flies,getting a boat together etc.
I will be out fishing end of March.
Cheers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:24 pm

I've been trying to pass the time by hibernating but I keep waking up every 12 hours. I've tied enough flies to fill a Fulling Mill catalogue. Now I'm going to write some poetry, Ode To A Mullet.

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:32 pm

Im looking for a casting instructor local to me , I am willing to pay.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:49 pm

Hi Keith....I think Lee Cummings would be your man....Heres a link to his site.
http://www.stsflyfishing.com/index.htm
Cheers Dave

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:54 pm

Thanks for you help Dave, much appreciated. Now I may be able to join the elite as I have only caught Salmon whilst spinning.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:52 pm

You're welcome Keith, also try this, its the A.A.P.G.A.I website of which most if not all the top casting instructors are members. Theres a guy on there in Clitheroe, which I think is quite near you.

ttp://www.aapgai.co.uk/index.asp?ID=1

Cheers Dave

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:41 pm

hi
what counts as spring i did see a primrose whilst i was in france last week does that count,i am getting fed up waiting maybe a trip to spain to visit my mum is in order,and all you fly tyers please feel free to send and surplus flys this way rather buy from you chaps than fleabay.
we all seem to be going afloat anyone feeling left out i have a cheap mezzler inflatable taking up room here.bon peche !!!.like the poem colin.
regards
glyn

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:47 pm

I have been in touch with both Instructors and one chap is £30 per hour and the other is 100 for 4 hours. Is that a steep or fair price?
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:01 pm

Hi Keith, I've never had lessons, which I now regret, but from what I've heard from other lads it's about the going rate. I know Lee is very good from what I've heard, I don't know about any others apart from Carl Hutchinson, who's in North Yorks but I think he may be to far away from you, he's supposed to be very good too. To be honest if you go with someone who is a member of A.A.P.G.A.I you can't go wrong as they have to reach a very high standard to be accepted.
Cheers Dave

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:11 pm

Thanks Dave for replying so quickly but I have just had a big outlay for a new car so it will be about 3 weeks before I can take up instruction.
Cheers
keith big grin