Fly Fishing Lessons

Our fly fishing lessons are delivered by qualified professional coach/guides in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. Personal tuition individually or in small groups means your learning experience is maximised, and you will learn in a safe, fun and relaxed environment. Fly fishing lessons are planned around your needs and whatever prior experience you have (none is fine). Our primary concern is your safety so the session will always start with a safety briefing identifying any hazards you may encounter and how to mitigate them. Your coach should be made aware of any conditions you have that might affect your comfort and safety and will adapt the session plan accordingly. Session plans will identify skills and knowledge to be covered, and feedback at the end of the session will assess progress and provide suggestions for future skills development. Fly fishing techniques are explained and demonstrated so you can understand why and how they are used. Our fly fishing lessons are designed to combine skills acquisition and angling practice; we will get you casting a fly out as soon as possible. Personal tuition allows you to decide in consultation with your coach what skills and knowledge you want to get out of the session, covering essential skills such as: equipment, fly selection, casting, playing fish and watercraft.

Different Types of Lessons

We offer different types of lessons to meet your needs, whether you are a beginner or an improver with some experience in fly fishing to build on. Our approach to personal tuition is driven by what you want to learn and is paced to suit you. Our coaches will use their vast knowledge of fly fishing and their professional coaching training to design different types of lessons and content for you. You will gain the skills and confidence you need to take with you on your fly fishing adventures, as well as enjoying a fun session fly fishing with us.

Beginners

We have taught many beginners to fly fish, and are skilled at keeping teaching points simple and identifying the essentials you need to know and focus on to have fun and fish safely. Careful observation and feedback will get you casting and fishing effectively and with confidence. we will give you a firm foundation of skills to take away with you after the session.

Improvers

What we Include in our Lessons

We Fly Fish will provide one of our licensed professional game angling coach/guides who will prepare and deliver a personalised session plan. You can choose to book a 1-2-1 session or bring one or two friends. For larger groups we can provide more coaches. Your coach/guide will be dedicated to providing a safe enjoyable experience for you. Catching fish is not guaranteed but you can be sure our coach/guides will be using all their skill and experience to make it possible. We include use of all necessary fly fishing equipment you will need during the session and your permit to fish. You will need to obtain a rod licence these are available online – Buy Fishing Licence

Choose your Destination

Where would you like to go fly fishing? Choose your destination from a wide range of venues in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire for your fly fishing lessons. You can experience fly fishing in rivers, small and large stillwaters for your lessons and on some waters fly fishing from a boat is possible. Decide on the species you want to target and we can advise on the best destinations for your fly fishing lessons. We can offer fly fishing lessons all year round, our knowledge of which destinations are best through the seasons will guide you to a great fly fishing experience.

Our target species

Our target species for fly fishing are trout, carp and pike. Fly fishing is traditionally associated with trout and this is the species we fish for most frequently. Brown trout and rainbow trout are the species we have available in the South East, and we will show you how to have fun fly fishing for them. Carp and pike are also very exciting species to fly fish for, offering a different experience and the chance of catching much larger fish. Fly fishing for these species is relatively new in the UK, but is growing rapidly in popularity as anglers find out just how exciting it is to target these fish using fly fishing equipment. Fly fishing techniques can be very effective for these species as they allow stealthy presentation and make it easy to take a roving approach to find the fish.

Fly Fishing Personal Tuition

At We Fly Fish we offer top quality personal tuition to help you develop your fly fishing skills for trout, carp and pike. You will learn how to setup the equipment, select an appropriate fly, cast, and land fish safely. For trout fly fishing we will teach you the role of different types of flies to match the food items that the trout are looking for which varies with the seasons, time of day and weather conditions. Fly fishing ‘flies’ can be imitations of winged insects as the name suggests, but can also imitate prey fish when fly fishing for pike, or even bread or dog biscuits when fishing for carp. We will help you understand and use the specialised equipment needed for carp and pike such as powerful fly rods capable of taking on large, hard fighting fish. Our personal tuition philosophy will ensure you learn fly fishing skills and have a great learning experience.

How Much will a Fly Fishing Lesson Cost

Our price for a day of fly fishing with a qualified professional coach depends on the number of people you would like to book for, and include the dedicated services of the coach/guide, all fly fishing equipment, and fishing permits for the day. We offer gift vouchers so you can give a day of fly fishing to friends and family for them to enjoy sometime over the next year, and cover the lesson cost for them.

These prices are for stillwater trout, carp or pike fishing. For complete beginners we would recommend keeping the party size to one or two to get the most out of the day. We can arrange more than one coach if you have a larger group. Other providers will have larger number of anglers per coach, this does not fit with our philosophy of providing top quality personal fly fishing tuition.

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