Three day long fly fishing courses with two nights

accommodation, good food, good company and fishing

for salmon and sea trout

in the spring, summer and autumn on the Tweed 2010.

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

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 Glyn and I 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 Glyn and I 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 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 course. The ghillie is Kevin Patterson who is himself a qualified instructor and knows the water and the fishing very well.

Dates for the river Tweed courses at Tweedswood in 2010 are:

Summer salmon and sea trout course

August 2nd - 4th

Cost £700

Places still available

Autumn 2010

 The September three day salmon course 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 Glyn and I look forward to helping some fishers really enjoy the cream of Autumn fishing in the British Isles.

The cost of this course includes the fishing, three course evening dinner, accommodation bed and breakfast with packed lunch/BBQ, great fishing lodge with W.C facilities and coffee.

Staying at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel

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 courses at Tweedswood in 2010 are:

Autumn salmon course

September 27th - 29th 

Cost £1200

Places available

Illtyd Griffiths - 01654 781365

illtyd@sewincaster.co.uk

Glyn Freeman - 016973 51752

glyn@cumbriaflyfishing.co.uk

This is one 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