For customers of Fishing and Flies Ltd (The Fly Factory)

LOYALTY BONUS & SPECIAL RATES
We offer all our return customers a 10% discount on every purchase made. So, if you have placed orders with us before, simply enter the Loyalty code – loyalfish06 – in the special promotions box on the payment page on the website and save 10% on your purchases. Retailers and fishing clubs please phone or email us for our special rates.
PLACES TO FISH - Useful web sites
Go to www.fishing.visitwales.com for fishing in Wakes and click on maps to find coarse, game and sea fisheries.
Go to www.environment-agency.gov.uk/wheretofish for fisheries in England.
Go to http://www.fishing-scotland.net/ for some advice on fishing in Scotland.

Featured Water - Derwentwater Lake

derwentwater

Day Permits are available from Keswick Post Office, Youdale's Newsagents, the Tourist Information Centre and High Hill Garage.
Species of fish: Brown Trout, Perch, Pike, Roach, Salmon and rare Verdace
For expert advice and guiding go to http://www.hemmingwaysfish.co.uk/ - Eric is a fantastic fly fisher and gives lessons at a reasonable price. Try asking him to take you fly fishing for Pike a day out you will never forget. 01768 778575 or 07771 763067

Eric holding a 23lb Pike

 eric with pike

Report on fishing in Germany – River Kyll

The river Kyll flows through the Eiffel region in Germany and is well known for its Trout and Grayling. This was my first time to go fishing in the river Kyll. My friend Harry has been fishing this river for a long time and volunteered to 'guide' me. After a 4 hours drive we arrived at our hotel and already 30 minutes later the first fish was landed. This promised to be very good ! Unfortunately, the water was still rather high so the stream made it difficult to fish near the bottom - 4mm gold beads hardly reached the bottom. Yet, Harry was able to catch 5 fish this day -3 brown trout, 1 grayling and a (surprising) char.
river kyll
After breakfast, the second day turned out to be very windy and casting was pretty difficult. But this day also brought me 3 brown trout and, unfortunately, I lost 2 real big fish because of line damage. Harry managed to catch 10 brown trouts this second day! This 2-day trip taught me a lot about the river Kyll and when Ii go visit there again at the end of this month I hope I'll be prepared to catch more great fish!

Spey Casting in Holland - A report by Bas Walraven

Last weekend I joined the Fly fishing school of a friend of mine for a one day course in (traditional) spey casting. Last year I also visited this course but then I had to use a rod of the school. Because I bought a spey rod not so long ago I wanted to do the course with this rod as well to improve my casting skills.

Mike (the instructor) told me that the spey cast courses are already completely booked full for almost the rest of the year. Obviously, lots of fly fishermen want to try this style of casting/fishing. Most people with double-handed rods in Holland use shooting head lines, and are not really familiar with real spey casting the traditional style (long belly Lines).

Spey casting is a casting technique used in fly fishing. Spey casting requires a longer, heavier two-handed fly rod, referred to as a Spey rod. Spey casting is used for fishing large rivers for salmon and large trout such as steelhead and sea trout. Spey technique is also used in saltwater surf casting. All of these situations require the angler to cast larger flies long distances. The two-handed Spey technique allows more powerful casts and avoids obstacles on the shore by keeping most of the line in front of the angler.

Tips
“Don’t stay in one spot too long.” If a fish is rising and ignoring your fly, try another, and another. If they carry on rising but are plainly ignoring your offering despite trying a finer point on your leader and experimenting with different flies then you may do better at the next spot.

New Products - 'New flies for Spring & Summer'.

We have placed our new flies into a special section on our website so it is easier to find them. Just click on the link below - New flies for Spring & Summer.

New Pike flies - These can be found on - http://www.theflyfactory.co.uk/xcart/home.php?cat=20 and more Pike flies are to be added during May.

Coming soon - we have new range of Tom Russell designer flies. Flies Tom has created, tried and tested. Tom holds many fishing records, his latest catch being a wild Brown Trout at 22lbs. Watch out for this new section in our web site towards the end of May or early June.

special czech nymphsSpecial Czech Nymphs - we have a fantastic new range of Czech nymphs created by our own tier John. These are available in weighted and also bead head types which both sink fast.

The range covers most colours and patterns. To launch these we are also doing starter packs in mixed hook sizes 10-12-14-16 – 24 flies in assorted patterns for £7.50

For the most comprehensive range of Czech Nymphs the Fly Factory is the place to be - http://www.theflyfactory.co.uk. To see the full range type 'special czech' in the search box.

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MONTH loch lomond

Submit your fishing photograph. We will give a voucher for £10 worth of tackle, of your choice, for what we judge to be the best picture we receive. It can be of the fish, or something amusing whilst fishing, we will print the picture in next month's newsletter.

April Competition

This month we received some great photos, some of which we will carry over into next month's competition. But after consideration we are giving this month's £10 of flies to Jen Kovacs for this superb photograph taken on Loch Lomond in March.

There is a £10 voucher waiting for the best photo sent in to us for May, so get those cameras working.

Once again we would like to express our thanks for your support and interest. We are planning some exciting new additions to our fly range and we will look forward to seeing your photographs and to hearing about your successes.

  Regards and Good Fishing!       Graham

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