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Can you or your Fly Fishing club help?

We are asking you to donate flies that can be used for fishing at the retreats, but in addition would be grateful to receive special collections of flies which will be utilised for fundraising. 

A vote of thanks to the below for donating flies to CfR UK & Ireland:

Fly Tiers from:
Isle of Man Fly Fishers
Bristol Flyfishers
UKFlyDressing.com
The fly-tiers at www.completefisher.com  

Also thanks for flies from:
'Cookie'
Brian White
John Horsfall
Chris Reeves of Crawley Fly Fishers Club
Hans Drost, who lives in Holland, has kindly donated a box of parachute-flies (Klinkies).
Ruard Janssen (member of De Poldervlieg Alkmaar)
Tim Bonner, the Countryside Alliance's Head of Media

 

If you are interested in contributing flies to CFR UK & Ireland, see the list below.

FLIES NEEDED:

  • For fishing –

    • Bead-head Nymphs(sizes 10, 12);

    • Attractor Dry Flies (sizes 8-12);

    • Terrestrials (sizes 10, 12);

    • Wooly Buggers (lightly weighted, sizes 6, 8);

    • Parachute Adams (sizes 10,12);

  • For fundraising – Special Flies or Collections (by exceptional tiers)

  • For participants – Put together a box of flies for each participant, each with an assortment of 6-12 flies. There are 14 participants at each retreat.

  • For prize drawings at the retreats – put together a box of flies for one lucky participant.

Please send flies to Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland at our contact address.

Image Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland is immensely grateful to Wendy Gibson, a very well-known fly-tier who has very kindly tied 12 sets of 18 flies for the entomology section of the CFR retreat.  The lady participants study the natural insects and then match them to match to pictures on laminated sheets. They then match the pictures on the laminated sheets to the flies in the box.  In this way, they a) learn how the natural behaves, b) learn the names of the natural, c) learn which fly to fish to represent the natural visually and d) learn how to retrieve the fly so that it behaves like the natural, basically end-to-end entomology lesson! 

Image Wendy’s framed collections of trout and salmon flies are some of the best quality currently available in the U.K. and have been featured on three TV programmes about her talent; ‘Maker’s’ with Jan Leaming, a spot on Midlands Today with the BBC, and ‘Down to Earth’ for Welsh TV.
Trade enquiries welcome. Group and Guild demonstrations. Private and night school lessons available.
Contact Wendy on: 01773 761645
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