The very best in Guided Fly Fishing days

Go Fly Fishing UK provide a top quality guided fly fishing service on a large number of rivers and lakes across England, Scotland and Wales. We have the largest number of high quality location choices of any UK guided fly fishing days business. See below for details of the locations.

We have particular strengths in river Brown Trout and Grayling guided fly fishing days and have access to some exclusive beats in the south and north of England, in the north and south Midlands, in Devon, in southern Scotland and in north, mid and south Wales. See our 'Locations' web pages for full details of these locations. Our fly fishing guides have been fishing these places for decades and can pass on their knowledge and expertise to give you the very best chance of success and enjoyment. Guided Salmon and Sea Trout days are available in southern Scotland, Wales and Devon.

To make the very most out of your limited fishing time it’s not enough just to be fishing in a good area on a good water. You need to be fishing the best places, on the best stretches of water, at the right time of year, using the right flies, with the most effective technique. Our personal knowledge and experience enables us to provide you with the very best advice and guidance to ensure that you have great fly fishing experiences.

All of our fly fishing guides hold nationally recognised Level 2, AAPGAI or REFFIS (Register of Experienced Fly Fishing Instructors, Schools and Guides) qualifications and a number of them are Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guides.

What we provide

The specific services offered by our fly fishing guides include:

access to top-class and often exclusive fly fishing beats
guiding, including provision of water-specific flies
instruction, including method and water-specific technique coaching and fly casting tuition
fly fishing equipment loan, including rod/reel/line, waders, flies, etc.
chauffeur service, including hotel or railway station collection/return and non-fishing sight-seeing as part of a fly fishing trip
pre-trip advice regarding tackle, flies, accommodation, nearby places of interest, etc.

Cost

Fully guided fly fishing days start from as little as £189 with the cost varying depending on the location being fished; the number of people fishing and the time of year. Our price includes the dedicated services of an experienced local fly fishing guide, the fishing day permit for the location, loan of all the necessary fly fishing tackle, waders, flies, etc. and local railway station or accommodation collection/return. Please contact us for an exact guided fly fishing day quotation for your preferred location and date.

To book your guided fly fishing day with Go Fly Fishing UK or to ask for more information please telephone 01252 851397 (south of England, excluding Devon) or 01756 748378 (north of England, Devon, Wales and Scotland) or email us at info@goflyfishinguk.com.

Environment Agency Fishing Rod Licence

For guided days the responsibility for obtaining this (non-migratory trout) licence is the liability of each individual fisherman. These can be bought for a day, month or annually, and must be obtained in advance from any Post Office or from the EA website at www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/fish.

Where to fish

Southern England (near to London)

Dave Martin with a specimen Brown Trout In the south of England Go Fly Fishing UK have guiding expertise on a number of chalkstream and limestone rivers in Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and the Cotswolds. In Hampshire the famous rivers Test and Itchen provide superb Trout and Grayling fly fishing. In Berkshire the River Kennet and its tributary the River Lambourn are very special chalkstreams for fly fishers. The River Wylye is the best of the Wiltshire chalkstreams and the River Coln is the very best Cotswolds fly fishing river. It is a rich limestone stream and as well as containing a good head of often large Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Grayling it flows through perfect peaceful ‘picture postcard’ English countryside. The wild rivers of Devon - such as the Taw, Exe, Teign, Yeo and Clum - provide excellent fly fishing for wild Brown Trout and Sea Trout and Salmon are also a good prospect at certain times of the year.

Dave Martin, our head fly fishing guide in southern England, has been living in Hampshire and fishing these streams since 1994. He is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide, has the Level 2 licence/qualification and is REFFIS accredited. To the right Dave is pictured with a 26” Brownie he caught on a size 16 dry Adams and a 6x tippet. Dave guides full time all year round and as he guides mainly on the chalk streams, most frequently the very special River Test, he can guide you to dry fly sport 12 months of the year (but not from 15th to 31st March!). There are some beats on the River Test and the River Kennet where Dave has guided on more than 100 occasions and in total Dave has delivered over 1200 client bookings (over one third of which were on the River Test).

Northern England

Steve Rhodes with a Malham Tarn Brown Trout In Yorkshire we have access to some exclusive beats on the limestone River Wharfe and River Aire in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Both these rivers offer superb wild Brown Trout fly fishing with the fish in the Aire often topping 20 inches. The River Wharfe is also a particularly good Grayling river. There are some excellent stillwater options in the Dales with one in particular, Malham Tarn, providing just about the best, although challenging, wild Brown Trout lake fishing in England – take a look at the picture to the left. This fish, caught at Malham Tarn by Steve Rhodes our head fly fishing guide in the north of England, weighed around 4lbs but Steve has had them there to well over 5lbs.

Steve has lived and fished in Yorkshire all his life and is currently Chairman of the Grayling Society. He is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide, has the Level 2 licence/qualification and has been REFFIS accredited. There are stretches of the River Wharfe where Steve has guided on more than 100 occasions and he lives less than one mile from where very large wild Brown Trout can be caught on the upper reaches of the superb River Aire.

In East Yorkshire we have access to the excellent limestone and chalkstream rivers around Pickering and Driffield, including the crystal clear Costa Beck, Oxfolds Beck and West Beck. These provide superb Brown Trout and Grayling fly fishing with both species running to large sizes in these fly-rich waters.

In the Lake District the River Eden and River Eamont are in our opinion the very best. Excellent fly fishing is available for wild Brown Trout and Grayling, with both reaching large sizes, and the Salmon fishing can be very good in the right season. The Lake District lakes themselves also provide very good Trout fly fishing.

The limestone streams of the Derbyshire Peak District offer excellent fly fishing opportunities and we offer guided fly fishing days on the River Dove, River Wye and River Derwent. All contain very good stocks of wild Brown Trout and Grayling with the Wye being famous for also having Britain’s only successful wild breeding population of Rainbow Trout....and there are many of them!

Wales

Go Fly Fishing UK offer guided fly fishing days on the rivers of mid, south and north Wales. The River Dee in north Wales and the River Severn and River Wye in mid-Wales all offer wild Brown Trout and superb Grayling fishing. The River Usk, in and near to the Brecon Breacons, is the best Brown Trout river in Wales, with both many and large wild fish. All these rivers also offer the chance of a Salmon and our head guide on the River Dee is a master Salmon (and Trout and Grayling) guide. The Welsh valleys and mountains are particularly scenic and also offer some very good stillwater options for those fly fishers who like to catch Brownies in unspoilt wild locations.

Scotland

On the rivers of southern Scotland Go Fly Fishing UK offer guided Trout, Grayling, Salmon and Sea Trout fly fishing days. These waters include the world famous River Tweed and its excellent tributaries the Teviot, Ettrick, Yarrow and Whiteadder. Also in south west Scotland we offer guided fly fishing days on the famous River Nith and on an the nearby rivers Urr, Cree and Minnock. Guided loch fly fishing for both wild Brown Trout and stocked Rainbow Trout is also available in southern Scotland. The scenery in Scotland is majestic and the fly fishing is usually memorable.

To book your guided day out with Go Fly Fishing UK please telephone 01252 851397 (south of England, excluding Devon) or 01756 748378 (north of England, Devon, Wales and Scotland) or email us info@goflyfishinguk.com.