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No problem. Fly fishing has a reputation for snobbiness and being expensive, which is true in part I guess. In reality though it’s a versatile and lightweight way of fishing for a lot of different species - not just trout and trout.
Most course fish will happily take surface and subsurface flies, and there’s abundant free or cheap fishing around the uk - including london! Check out a video on YouTube of a dude fly fishing for barbel on the wandle (which in itself is a great advert for rehabilitation of dying rivers)!
jupiz
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Thanks all, I've got plenty of homework now. @jupiz Very kind offer, I may well take you up. I trawled this thread a bit yesterday and noticed that Orvis run free introduction to fly fishing courses and I've managed to book myself onto the last one of the year on Saturday in Stockbridge. Link here in case there are any other curious lurkers...
https://www.orvis.co.uk/products/family-learn-to-fly-fish-session-orvis-stockbridge
Edit: On second viewing the course looks pretty basic so I’ll be taking my 6 year old too!