|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
Home
Guide Tips
Guide Tip Articles |
|||||||||
Having grown up amidst the world of the English chalk stream - very similar to the Spring creeks in the USA , where this approach works too, I should add - and subsequently guided them for years. The first thing that I learned and tried to install in others that I accompanied, was to think about what they were doing, how they were going to present their flies and importantly, how they were going to present themselves. Sound odd?
Move slowly, dress unobtrusively and try, where ever possible, to mirror the world you are fishing in. Perhaps the most vital aspect though, is to consider the angle of your delivery to a feeding fish. Each trout is an individual: treat it individually! Try varying the angle of the cast if your first few do not meet with success. And, if you are bored with fishing a certain fly, you can bet your life that the fish are bored with it, too; be prepared to change. But the most important tip of all though, is to grow the sport and take a youngster with you: so that they, too, will be immersed in the magic that we call angling.
Charles Jardinegrew up in an atmosphere of angling and art. He went to Canterbury Art College, Kent, England, and then worked as instructor for Dermot Wilson, internationally renowned dry-fly-fishermaan, on the rivers Test and Itchen in Hampshire. His artwork and writing are frequently seen in various angling magazines such as Trout Fisherman, and in his books. Charles is also well known internationally as an angling instructor and demonstrator with the fly rod.