DAMSEL FLY FISHING

Fully qualified AAPGAI Advanced Instructor In both Double handed Spey casting and single handed

casting for trout.

call 07740243269

Casting Tuition Prices

Double Handed Spey Casting

6 hours total
One Person - £190.00.
Two People - £310.00.
Three People - £380.00.
(Maximum of 3 people in total)

Half Day (4 hours)
One Person - £110.00.
Two People - £190.00.
Three People - £230.00.
(Maximum of 3 people in total)

For 4 or more people please call or email me for a quote, I may have to bring in an assistant to enable you to get the most from your time with us.

Fishing permits are extra as the price varies depending on the water used and the time of year.

contact me for availability

My Experience

As a sport fly fishing to me is about lots of things not just the ability to catch fish. I started fly fishing at the age of 16 in Perthshire, Scotland. I was very lucky, I lived on a stunningly beautiful sporting estate with a small private loch in front of my cottage. I learned the techniques of casting from my then husband a keen trout and salmon fisherman. Many many evenings were spent lazily drifting down the loch in a boat casting to wild brown trout and Canadian brook trout. When we weren't trout fishing, in the late Autumn, we would travel into the wild highland scenery of Glen Almond and fish for fresh run silver salmon. Often fishing with fly, though sometimes worms or spinners. The experience of catching a salmon on fly is brilliant and something I will never forget.

I spent long summer days fishing highland lochs with nothing but the sound of grouse on the moor and high overhead the faint sound of a Golden Eagle calling. The weather could be bright and sunny with piercingly blue skies one minute and then wild and windy the next, but always the beauty of the place was second to none.

The wild brownies we typically caught would weigh in at around 3/4 lb and taste sweet and succulent.

Not many of us get to start our fishing experiences in such great surroundings, but can still experience them on our fishing trips and holidays.

In the years that have followed I have fished as far afield as Tasmania and New Zealand as well as Ireland, Wales and Germany.

It is my aim to introduce many more people to the pleasures of fly fishing and the joys of catching wild fish in beautiful places.

qualifications

AAPGAI

Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors

I am one of only two ladies ever to have qualified to this level for both single handed trout and salmon spey casting with double handed rods in the UK.

The standard for AAPGAI is extremely high, the assessment programme is viewed as the most difficult to get through and standards are continuously under scrutiny.

You can be sure that an AAPGAI qualified instructor has the training and technical expertise to most effectively assess your casting and rectify any problems, enabling you to get the most from your fishing. An AAPGAI advanced instructor offers the most cost effective tuition available.

I offer tuition by the half day, full day or longer for guided fishing tuition. I have the necessary licence, ensuring that I hold adequate insurance and have child protection training, as well as police disclosure certificate and emergency first aid.

I specialise in rivers and small stillwater fishing and can arrange days on both. Being in Twynholm, only two and a half hours from Edinburgh or Glasgow means you can easily make a day of it, or I can arrange to meet at any venue of your choice.

I regularly cater for corporate days and can provide suitable tackle for both children and adults, I can arrange upmarket days for your important clients or team building fun days for your staff. Whatever you requirements, give me a call or email me for details of availability and rates.

Costs are in line with other professional coaches fees and no more than you would pay for tennis or golf coaching.

Why learn bad habits from a friend when you can start properly and wow your friend with your ability?

AAPGAI advanced Trout, and Sea trout qualification covers:-

Technical casting

Roll casts
Overhead cast
Single and double haul.
Side casts
River casts (slack line, mends etc)
Jump roll
Single spey
Double spey
Snake roll

All of the above casts using single handed trout rods and adapted to suit weather conditions, over both shoulders with head and following winds.

Also

Safety aspects of fishing
Fishing techniques
Tackle assessment
Knots
Entomology and fly recognition

Double handed salmon casting

Static roll
Jump roll
Single Spey
Circle casts
Double spey
Snake roll

The use of modern switch rods and skandi shooting head lines

References are available on request.

Certificate in Coaching Angling - Level 2. (National Occupational Standards for Coaching, Teaching & Instructing).
This certificate has now replaced S.T.A.N.I.C.

In order to become licensed I have:-

Certificate in Emergency first Aid.
Completed Child Protection Training.
Certificate of Disclosure (Police Checking Procedure).
Hold £5,000,000 Public Liability Insurance cover.

What the qualification covers.

Theory

Angling and Coaching Principles & Ethics.
Working with Partners to Develop Angling.
Preparing Angling Coaching Sessions.
Conducting Coaching Sessions.
Dealing with Accidents & Emergencies.
Child Protection Act & Application in Coaching Environment.
Entomology.
Fish recognition & Physiology.
Environmental issues.

Practical

Tackle Selection.
Terminal Tackle & Knot Tying.
Casting - including Roll Cast, Overhead Cast, Double Haul, Shooting Line.
Control in Casting, Distance, Accuracy, Feathering, Consistency.
Striking and playing fish.
Landing fish.
Fly selection.

SPEY CASTING

Planning a trip to Scotland?. Get your Spey casting up to scratch before the start of the Salmon season. Why not make the most of your time away by getting to grips with the intricacies of Double handed Spey-casting lesson now, whilst none of your friends are watching! Many Ghillies though having invaluable knowledge of their own stretches of river are often stretched between lots of clients and don't have the time to offer one to one structured casting tuition.

This leson will give you a good guide to the different casts available to allow you to change the direction of your cast from downstream to across stream with minimum effort.

Don't struggle in front of your friends when you can enjoy your fishing and look the part too!

As an advanced female instructor I can guide you through the techniques required to enable you to cast off either bank and with up or downstream winds.

If you have the time and inclination I can teach you the sinuous Snake Roll, the snappy Snap T, the divine Double Spey, or the seductive Single Spey.

All have their own merits and all will help you to overcome some of the obstacles commonly encountered whilst salmon fishing.

Leave the overhead stuff for the beginners and get rolling with this great family of roll casts.

Speycasting Lessons come with all the tackle you need.