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Contact: Dave McPherson Tel: 01285 861133 River Lynher Liskeard & District Angling Club 64 Portbyham Road West Looe Cornwall PL13 2QN Contact: Mr Bill Eliot Tel: 01503 264173 Raker Lakes The Lodge Greengales Lane Weldrake, York North Yorkshire YO19 6BW Contact: Mr Brian Pallister Tel: 01904 448793 River Mawddach Dolgellau Gwynedd Contact: Sec Dolgellau AA Tel: 01341 422706 Ravensnest Fishery Raglan Road Tintern Gwent NP6 6TP Contact: Mr Arthur Bridge Tel: 01291 689564 River Nar Apple Tree lodge Squires Hill Upper Marham Norfolk PE33 9PJ Contact: David Burrows Tel: 01760 337222 Raygill Trout Fishery 1 Raygill Cottage Lothersdale Keighley West Yorkshire BD20 8HH Contact: Mr Bernard Clement Tel: 01535 632500 River Neath Glynneath and district AA Glynneath Glamorgan Contact: Keith Harris Tel: 01685 877739 Rescobie Loch The Lodge Burnside Forfar Tayside Contact: Permits: Jack Yule Tel: 01307 469471 River Nevern Nevern Pembrokeshire Contact: Trewern Arms Rhydlewis Trout Farm &Smokery Rhydlewis Llandysul Dyfed SA44 5QS Contact: The Manager Tel: 01239 851224 River Nidd Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire Contact: Nidderdale AC Rib Valley Fishing Lake West Mill Farm Ware Hertfordshire SG12 0ES Contact: Mr Richard Vigus Tel: 01920 484913 River North Tyne Town and Country Shop Bellingham Northumberland Contact: Manager Ringstead Grange Trout Fishery Ringstead Grange Ringstead Kettering Northamptonshire NN14 4DT Contact: Harold & Rosemary Foster Tel: 01933 622960 River Ogmore Marine & Angling Superstore 117-119 Bridgend Road, Aberkenfig Bridgend Mid Glamorgan CF32 9AP Contact: Hon Sec Ogmore AA Tel: 01656 722448 River Aeron Aberaeron Angling Club Aberearon Powys Contact: Sec Tel: 01545 571013 River Ogwen Bangor Angling Supplies 21 The High Street Bangor Gwynedd LL57 1NP Contact: Manager Tel: 01248 355518 River Aire 131 Mornington St Keighley West Yorkshire Contact: K&L Tackle River Okement Hill Barton farm Okehampton Devon Contact: Manager Tel: 01837 52454 River Alness Albess AC Novar Estate Evanton Ross-shire Contact: Honourable Secretary River Orchy Inveroran Hotel Bridge of Orchy Argyll Contact: Manager Tel: 200220 River Annan Hoddom and Kinmount Estates Estate Office, Hoddom Lockerbie Dumfries and Galloway Contact: Bailiff Tel: 01576 300244 River Otter Deer Park Hotel Buckerell Devon EX14 0PG Contact: Manager Tel: 01404 41266 River Annas Bootle Cumbria Contact: Duddon Sports River Ouse (Sussex) Old Barn Cottage Peak Lane East Preston Sussex BN16 1RN Contact: Ouse APS Tel: 01903 773104 River Anton Rooksbury Mill Rooksbury road Andover Hants Contact: Manager Tel: 01264 352921 River Plym 88 Vauxhall Street Plymouth Devon Contact: D K Sports River Artro Newsagent Llanbedr Gwynedd Contact: Manager River Rede Otterburn Towers Hotel Otterburn Northumberland Contact: Manager Tel: 01830 520620 River Avon, Lanarkshire Sportsman Emporium Hamilton Lanarkshire Contact: Manager River Rheidol c/o Aberystwyth A A 42 Erwgoch, Waunfawr Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 3AZ Contact: P W Eklund Tel: 01970 623021 River Axe Higher Cownhayne Farm Colyton Devon EX13 6HD Contact: Mrs E Pady Tel: 01297 552267 River Ribble Ted Carters Tackle Shop 85/88 Church Street Preston Lancashire Contact: Manager River Ayr Gamesport (tackle shop) 60 Sandgate Ayr Ayrshire Contact: Manager River Rothay Tourist Information Centre Ambleside Cumbria Contact: Manager River Banwy Montgomeryshire AA Montgomeryshire Contact: Secretary Tel: 01938 553867 River Rother Tackle and Gun 3 Eastwell parade Tenterden Kent TN30 6AH Contact: Manager River Barle Tarr Steps Hotel Hawkridge Somerset TA22 9PY Contact: Manager Tel: 01643 851293 River Rye North Yorkshire Contact: Scarborough Mere AC River Beauly 37 Castle Street Inverness Inverness-shire Contact: J Grahams Tel: 0463 233178 River Seaton Liskeard & District Angling Club 64 Portbyham Road West Looe Cornwall PL13 2QN Contact: Mr Bill Eliot Tel: 01503 264173 River Carron, Stonehaven 31 Market Square Stonehaven Grampian Contact: Davids Sports Shop River Severn, Caersws Main Street Caersws Powys SY17 5EL Contact: Buck Hotel River Chess Chesham Bucks HP5 1TT Contact: Latimer Park Lakes Tel: 01494 766333 River Skirfare Arncliffe North Yorkshire Contact: Falcon Inn Tel: 01756 770205 River Churnet Leek and Moorlands FC Leek Staffordshire Contact: Hon Secretary River South Tyne Greggs Sports Main st Haltwhistle Northumberland Contact: Manager River Clwyd Foxons Tackle Penrhewl St Asaph Clwyd Contact: Manager Tel: 01745 583583 River Swale Richmond Angling Centre 8 Temple Square, Craven Gate Richmond North Yorkshire Contact: Manager River Clyde 920 Pollokshaws Road Glasgow Lanarkshire Contact: Tackle & Guns Tel: 0141 6322005 River Taf St Clears Carmarthen Carmarthenshire Tel: 01994 427331 River Coln Bull Hotel Market Place Fairford Gloucestershire GL7 4AA Contact: Manager River Tamar Arundell Arms Hotel Lifton Devon PL16 0AA Contact: Manager Tel: 01566 784666 River Conwy, Betws-y-coed Tan Lan Cafe Betws-y-coed Conwy Contact: Mr G Parry River Tanat Llan-y-Blodwel Contact: Horseshoe Inn River Conwy, Llanrwst Old Library Tackle Shop Bridge St Llanrwst Gwynedd Contact: Manager River Tavy Barkells 15 Duke Street Tavistock Devon PL19 0BA Contact: Manager River Coquet Head Bailiff, Thirston Mill Felton Morpeth Northumberland NE65 9EH Contact: Northumbrian Anglers Federation Tel: 01670 787663 River Taw The Kingfisher (tackle shop) 22 Castle street Barnstaple Devon Contact: Manager River Cothi Fishing and Shooting supplies 33 King Street Carmarthen Dyfed Contact: M Lewis River Tawe Fieldsports Station Road Ystradgynlais West Glamorgan Contact: John Glynn Davies Tel: 01639 843194 River Dane Prince Albert AS Macclesfield Cheshire Contact: Hon Sec River Tees Adams Fishing tackle and guns 42 Duke Street Darlington Co Durham DL3 7AJ Contact: W P Adams Tel: 01325 468069 River Dart Ashburton Buckfastleigh Devon TQ13 7NS Contact: Holn Chase Hotel Tel: 01364 631471 River Teifi, Cardigan Reel Thing Tackle Shop Lower Market Cardigan Dyfed Contact: Sec Teifi Trout Assoc River Dee Hughes Newsagents 12 Chapel Street Llangollen Clwyd Contact: Manager Tel: 01978 860155 River Teifi, Llandysul Lampeter Angling 57 Bridge Street Lampeter Dyfed Contact: Alan Williams Tel: 01570 422985 River Dee, Bala Yr Eryr Sports and Tackle 31-33 High Street Bala Gwynedd LL23 7AF Contact: D Evans River Teifi, Newcastle Emlyn Thomas Sports Shop Newcastle Emlyn Dyfed Contact: Manager River Derwent 79 Main Street Keswick Cumbria Contact: Field and Stream Tel: 01768 774396 River Teign Drum Sports 47a Courtenay Street Newton Abbot Devon Contact: Manager River Derwent (Yorks) Hackness North Yorkshire Contact: Hackness Grange Hotel River Teirw Golden Pheasant Hotel Glyn Ceirog Llangollen Clwyd Contact: Manager Tel: 01691 718281 River Derwent, Shotley Bridge Royal Derwent Hotel Allensford Shotley Bridge Co Durham Contact: Manager River Teme, Knightwick 1 - 4 Sevenside South Bewley Worcestershire Contact: Stan Lewis Tel: 01299 403358 River 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Powys Contact: Hon sec Tel: 01654 702721 River Towy Hamdden Ltd Plas y Ffynnon, Cambrian Way Brecon Powys LD3 7HP Contact: Golden Grove Fishery Tel: 01874 614657 River Dysynni Abergynolwyn Towin Gwynedd Contact: Sec Estimaner AA Tel: 01654 782632 River Twrch Glamorgan Contact: Tawe and tributaries AA Tel: 01639 632070 River Eamont 4 Great Dockray Penrith Cumbria Contact: Sykes Tackle Shop Tel: 01768 862418 River Twymyn Bryn-Llugwy Llanbrynmair Llanbrymair Powys SY19 7AA Contact: Mrs D R Lewis Tel: 01650 521385 River East Allen Allendale Post office Allendale Cumbria Contact: Manager Tel: 01434 683201 River Tyne Angling Centre (tackle shop) 123/5 Clayton Street West Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland Contact: Manager River East Cleddau Llancefyn Dyfed Contact: T&PJ Murphy Tel: 01437 563604 River Ure Worton North Yorkshire Contact: Kings Arms Hotel River Eden 5/6 Lowther Arcade Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8LX Contact: Murrays Tackle Shop Tel: 01228 23816 River Ure, Hawes Lowis Country Wear Riverside House, Bridge End Hawes North Yorkshire DL8 3NM Contact: Manager River Ehen 45 Main Street Egremont Cumbria Contact: W Holmes Tel: 01946 820368 River Usk PM Fishing Tackle 12 Monk Street Abergavenny Gwent Contact: Manager River Esk (Cumbria) Outward Bound School Eskdale Green Ravenglass Cumbria Contact: The Bursar Tel: ................281 River Wear Anglers services 45 Claypath Durham Co Durham Contact: Manager Tel: 0191 3847584 River Esk (Yorkshire) 65/67 Haggersgate Whitby North Yorkshire Contact: Whitby Angling Supplies Tel: 01947 603855 River Wear, Upper Weardale Bluebell Inn St Johns Chapel Co Durham Contact: Manager Tel: 01388 537256 River Ettrick 9 - 11 High Street Selkirk Borders Contact: Permits: Macdonald Tel: 01750 21398 River Wenning Estate Office Ingleborough estate Clapham North Yorkshire Contact: Manager Tel: 01524 251302 River Exe Lance Nicholson Tackle shop High St Dulverton Somerset TA22 9HB Contact: Proprietor Tel: 01398 323409 River West Looe Liskeard & District Angling Club 64 Portbyham Road West Looe Cornwall PL13 2QN Contact: Mr Bill Eliot Tel: 01503 264173 River Farm Fishery Fontley Road Fareham Hampshire Contact: The Proprietor Tel: 01329 841215 River Western Cleddau Country Sports Shop 3 Old Bridge Haverfordwest Pemrokeshire Contact: Manager River Fowey Liskeard & District Angling Club 64 Portbyham Road West Looe Cornwall PL13 2QN Contact: Mr Bill Eliot Tel: 01503 264173 River Wharfe, Bolton Abbey Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire Contact: Tickets from Estate Office Tel: 01756 710227 River Frome Wessex Fly Fishing Lawrences farm Tolpuddle Dorset Contact: Manager Tel: 01305 848460 River Wharfe, Burnsall Burnsall North Yorkshire Contact: Red Lion Hotel River Glaslyn Penrhyn Guns High Street Penrhyndeudreath Gwynedd Contact: Manager River Wharfe, Grassington Grassington North Yorkshire Contact: Black Horse Hotel River Glass Newsagent 16 Balconie Street Evanton Ross-shire Contact: A & M Alcock Tel: 01349 830672 River Wharfe, Ilkley Station Road Ilkley West Yorkshire LS29 8HA Contact: Tourist Info centre River Greta Village Pet Supplies High Bentham North Yorkshire Contact: Proprietor River Wheeler Grosvenor St Mold Clwyd Contact: Grosvenor Pet and garden centre Tel: 01352 754264 River Gryffe Newsagent Main Street Bridge of Weir Strathclyde Contact: M Duncan River Wye Fishery Edensor Bakewell Derbyshire DE45 1PJ Contact: Mr David Oakley Tel: 01246 582204 River Hodder Jam Pot Cafe Slaidburn Lancashire Contact: Manager River Wye, Bakewell Haddon Hall Estate Derbyshire Contact: River keeper Tel: 01629 636255 River Inny Liskeard & District Angling Club 64 Portbyham Road West Looe Cornwall PL13 2QN Contact: Mr Bill Eliot Tel: 01503 264173 River Wye, Builth N J Guns Builth Wells Powys Contact: Manager River Irfon Neuadd Arms Llanwrtyd Wells Powys Contact: Manager River Wye, Hereford Hattons Tackle Shop 64 St Owen St Hereford Hereford Contact: Manager Tel: 272317 River Irt Holmrook Cumbria Contact: Lutwidge Arms Hotel Tel: 01946 724230 River Wye, Rhayader Nant-y-Mynach Farm Nantmel Powys Contact: J Price Tel: 01597 810491 River Irthing Melkridge House Melkridge Haltwhistle Northumberland NE49 0LT Contact: Haltwhistle & District AA River Wyre Garstang Fishing and Shooting 6 Pringle Court Garstang Lancashire Contact: Manager River Itchen The Rod Box London Road, Kings Worthy Winchester Hampshire SO23 7QN Contact: Proprieter Tel: 01962 883600 River Yarrow Yarrowford Borders Contact: Permits: Post Office River Ithon Wayfarers Ddole Road Enterpise park Llandrindod Wells Powys Contact: Manager Tel: 01597 825100 River Ystwyth c/o Aberystwyth A A 42 Erw Goch, Waunfawr Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 3AZ Contact: P W Eklund Tel: 01970 623021 River Jed Kenmore Toll Jedburgh Borders Contact: Permits: First and Last Shop Riverside Trout Lake Ffrwd Farm Caerphilly Glamorgan Contact: The Manager Tel: 01222 867513 River Kennet Barton Court Fishery Kintbury Newbury Berkshire Contact: The Manager Tel: 01488 658905 Roadford Reservoir Lower Goodacre Okehampton Devon Contact: Angling and watersports centre Tel: 01409 211507 River Kent Kendal Sports 28/30 Stramondgate Kendal Cumbria Contact: Proprietor Rockbourne Fishery Rockbourne Road Sandleheath Fordingbridge Hampshire SP6 1QG Contact: The Proprietor Tel: 01725 518603 River Leader Westfield Street Earlston Borders Contact: Permits: Mr W Lothian Rocklands Mere Fishery Chapel Street Rocklands St. Peter Attleborough Norfolk NR17 1UJ Contact: Jamess Harrold Tel: 07900004953 Email: rocklandsmere@safe-mail.net Website: www.rocklandsmere.co.uk River Leet Market Square Coldstream Borders Contact: Permits: Coldstream AA Rooksbury Mill Fishery Rooksbury Road Andover Hampshire SP10 2LR Contact: The Manager Tel: 01264 352921 River Liddle Bailey Roxburgh TD9 0TR Contact: Bailey Mill Farm Holidays & Trekking Ctr Tel: 01697748617 Rose Park Trout Fishery Trezibbet Altarnun Launceston Cornwall PL15 7RF Contact: Roy or Anne Buford Tel: 01566 86278 River Lledr Post Office Dolwyddelan Gwynedd LL25 0NJ Contact: Manager Tel: 01690 750201 Rosebush Reservoir c/o Hamdden Ltd Llysyfran Reservoir, Clarbeston Road Haverfordwest Dyfed SA63 4RR Contact: The Manager Tel: 01437 532723 River Llwchwr 72-74 Wind Street Ammanford Carmarthenshire SA18 3DR Contact: Tightlines Direct Tel: 01269 595858 Rosslynlee Fishery Roslin Edinburgh Lothian Contact: Permits: Gibby Scott Tel: 01968 679606 River Lugg Meadow View Dinedor Hereford Hereford Contact: J H Andrews Tel: 01432 870301 Roughlee Trout Fishery Pasture Lane Rough Lee Barrowford, nr Nelson Lancashire BB9 6NR Contact: Mr Steve Strickland Tel: 01282 613416 River Lune 7 Great John St Lancaster Cumbria Contact: Stephen Fawcetts Guns and Tackle Tel: 01524 32033 Ruston Reaches East Ruston Saltham Norfolk Contact: The Proprietor Tel: 01692 536736 River Lyn Brendon Devon Contact: Brendon House Hotel Rutland Water Normanton Fishing Lodge Rutland South Shore, Edith Weston Oakham Leicestershire LE15 8HD Contact: The Manager Tel: 01780 86770 River Lyne Market Square Coldstream Borders Contact: Permits: Coldstream AA   Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques Nymph Fishing In many cases the descriptions of wet fly fishing overlap with nymph fishing, such as judging lies and depth. However some separate consideration is required as nymph fishing is a deadly method that requires a sixth sense and an acquired skill. Nymphing works well with brown trout but is more common in richer lowland waters stocked with rainbows. Knowledge of insect life stages and types is very important, traditional wet flies often imitate nymphs and hatching insects in broad terms and are fished accordingly, but nymph fishing alone can be pursued as a separate aspect of fly fishing where each nymph is tied specifically to match and fished deliberately so. The angler is looking to imitate different nymphs and each of these will move in the water in different ways (see entomology). Some nymphs, such as those of midge (buzzers), will rise up straight through the water in stages, pause trapped in the meniscus and then hatch. Most nymphs can only move slowly and the angler is looking to retrieve in a series of very short pulls or slow twitches. In other cases nymphs move in short fast bursts of action such as those of the pond olive with fairly lengthy pauses in between. While a few nymphs like those of the damsel fly can move very powerfully like fish. Yet again another nymph may move steadily or another jerkily. The nymph fisherman will vary his retrieve to suit, if he sees no fish rising he will start by fishing a general nymph like a pheasant tail, stick fly or hare's ear, slowly near the bottom or near weeds. If flies are hatching the angler will let the appropriate fly sink and then draw it up to the surface steadily. Usually it helps to use a floating line for nymph fishing to help detect takes which can be delicate, and if you want the fly to work deeper to use a long leader and count the fly down until you start snagging the bottom, then fish just above this point. Sometimes it is easier to pinch a small lead shot on the leader about 6" to 8" from the fly, this will also tend to work the fly up and down near the bottom which can be very attractive to fish. Takes can easily be missed with such slow imitative fishing and where it is permitted some form of indicator might be used, this could be a coloured portion at the tip of the fly line, a small piece of white plastic or by using a very buoyant fly on a dropper and experimenting with leader lengths to the point fly. Don't be afraid to tighten into any slight unusual movements. Nymph fishing itself does not only represent the nymphal stage of insect life, "nymph" type flies are fished in short jerky motions to represent shrimps, beetles, leeches and other life and as with most fishing a purist approach is less productive than mixing wet flies, dry and nymphs and ringing the changes or fishing teams. As indicated earlier in most "stillwater" fishing wet fly and nymph techniques overlap. On small stocked waters the fish will get used to all sorts of offerings and here a further flexibility of approach is advisable, vary your retrieve, make it erratic, short twitches, pauses, longer steady pulls etc. Alternatively try a figure of eight retrieve, this makes for a smooth movement because normally when you pull the line with your fingers this translates to the fly as steps of movement, but the figure of eight involves a steady catching up of loops in the palm of your hand. Another deadly method is to drop a weighted nymph to the bottom in front of a trout and then lift it up right right in front of it, the fish will be induced to take the fly. << Boat Fishing in Lakes and Lochs Loch Style - Background >>	Existing Users Login User ID:   Password:   Remember me next time. Register to join now for FREE Forgotten your password?
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