Three day residential fly fishing course with two nights full board hotel

accommodation, good food, good company, fishing for salmon

at prime time in the autumn on the Tweed 2012.

These fly fishing courses are designed for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, they are tailor made to suit your aspirations and we will organise everything for you.

Many people often ask why do they need to go on a course. We do all envisage that courses are for beginners learning from scratch how to learn a new skill. This is in fact a totally erroneous understanding of the type of courses we try to present. Our courses are very much tailored for anglers who find they would like to improve either from the starting line or from any part of the learning curve which they now find themselves. We therefore try to answer the following questions which anglers might be asking themselves: 

• I would like to fish for salmon but do not know what kit to buy and how to know if it is what I need.
  
• I have fished for salmon but have problems sometimes with wind or when wading to cast well
• I have seen casts performed either at demonstrations or on video but would like to be able to do them
• I can fish fine with a floating line but have difficulty turning over the fly when I add polytips or large flies
• I would like to try out shooting heads and would like to learn how to handle them and manage large amounts of running line.
• I have some salmon tackle which I am not sure if it suits me but am loath to buy more in case I make a bad investment.
• I would like to be able to fish a sinking line but find it difficult.
• I would like to fish a really nice beat on the Tweed and have the expertise on hand to ensure that I am fishing the beat well.
• I would like a refresher on my casting before my fishing trips next year.
• I would like to know how to read the river and what to use in differing conditions.
• I have a habit of losing salmon - am I doing anything wrong?
• It would be so nice to catch a salmon!
• And many others

In other words we are dedicated to ensuring that all the attendees really get a lot out of the three days on the Tweed. We have kept the charges as reasonable as we can to ensure that they are affordable to many salmon or budding salmon fishermen.

Accommodation of two nights in a hotel with tuition, lunches/BBQ, three course evening dinner and the fishing of over a mile of double bank along with the resident ghillie, a great fishing lodge/W.C/coffee and boat fishing if desired is included in the price. We can also supply equipment if you do not have any free of charge and photos.

Buccleuch Arm Hotel.

Fully qualified AAPGAI instructors, Illtyd Griffiths, Neil Truelove, and Glyn Freeman, are running the courses. The ghillie is Kevin Patterson who is himself a qualified instructor and knows the water and the fishing very well.

 The September the three day salmon courses with fishing is really for those who would like to fish the Tweed at prime time when the autumn fish are arriving in numbers and are still very fresh and the problems of leaves in the river has not as yet appeared.

Opportunities to fish the river at this time is very much at a premium and we look forward to helping some fishers really enjoy the cream of Autumn fishing in the British Isles.

One only has to come and think of the fish one is likely to catch while the cost still compares favourably with the costs of fishing only on many middle Tweed beats at this time of year.

We can supply suitable equipment for the course if you do not have any at no extra cost.

There will be at least three fully qualified instructors on hand Illtyd Griffiths, Neil Truelove

and Glyn Freeman plus Kevin Patterson the Ghillie.

Dates for the river Tweed course at Tweedswood in 2012

Autumn 3 day salmon course

September 27th - 29th

Cost £1200

Contact:-

Illtyd Griffiths - 01654 781365

illtyd@sewincaster.co.uk

Glyn Freeman - 016973 51752

glyn@cumbriaflyfishing.co.uk

This is a couple of the testimonials received last year:

Hello Illtyd and Glyn
 
This is just a short thank you from my brother Clive and I for the excellent Spey casting course we have just completed on the Tweed.
 
You both are to be congratulated on what I can only describe as the most enjoyable and refreshing learning experience I have undertaken in a very long time.
 
Your casting skills are beyond question and a privilege to watch, but more importantly it is the relaxed way you impart and teach others to acquire these skills that I believe sets the standards for other instructors and courses to aspire to.
 
It was so refreshing not to be spoken down to when a bad cast was made ( of which on my part there were many ) instead we received easy to understand reasons why things were going wrong, and instructions and demonstrations on how to rectify our faults. It is now a great feeling to be able to spey cast a line for a salmon to a higher standard than I ever thought I would achieve.
 
The three days were so enjoyable it is a true testimony that every person on the course was eager to attend a refresher course in November.
 
I will not hesitate to recommend your casting course to friends and I look forward to another few days of instruction on the beautiful river Tweed this coming November.
 
Once again thank you both for everything
 
Mike and Clive Humphreys.

Gentlemen, 

Just a quick note to say thanks for the course on the Tweed last week.  

What a fantastic introduction to Salmon fishing! 

Utterly unbelievable; a lovely beat and ideal for what we needed, A great 

Ghillie, Kevin really goes the extra mile doesn't  he? The hotel is "just 

the right stamp" - and the instruction and advice  perfectly suited to the 

situation at the time. If the river had not been in such fine fettle I 

would have been keen to work more on my casting, but with taking fish in the 

system - as long as I could cover the river - I really wanted  to fish. 

I learnt so much in the three days that I would have taken years to pick up 

 by myself, little things and big things. To had what felt like a great  

honour of beaching four Salmon, in addition to loosing 4, (two of them  as I 

prepared to beach them ) and missing another 4 takes.  I  did not hope in my 

wildest dreams that I could pack all that in to two and a  half days.  That 

it is so different to sewin fishing I did not  believe, until I experienced 

it. 

Your company was, as ever, a joy.  It was a pleasure to have such  outgoing 

friends to bring me out of my shy reticent shell in the evenings! I am 

only sad that I shall not be going to Patagonia in 2011, roll on  2012! 

In the meantime I will work on my two handed rod, I will need further  

tuition and will try to sneak on to a course next year - please send me the  

dates when you work them out. 

All the best

Simon 

Capel  Isaac