Fly fishing tuition, instruction and guide, Spey casting,
fly tying, conservation, fishing flies and photographs.

Fly Fishing lessons, Spey casting and fly casting and trips.

Spey Casting Made Easy - the easy way to learn Spey Casting and salmon fly fishing.

Fly fishing lessons and fly casting tuition and instruction for salmon, sea trout, steelhead, grayling, pike and trout, fly tying, conservation, catch and release and fishing in Scotland together with articles about many aspects of fly fishing. Ally Gowans professional writer, photographer, fishing instructor and guide who provides top class tuition and instruction including Spey casting, underhand, roll and overhead casting with two handed rods and all types of single handed casts, including overhead and side casts, roll and Spey casts, underhand casts and the use of single and double hauls with those casts. Learn all the secrets for successful fly fishing. Ally's qualifications include APGAI trout, salmon and fly tying, AAPGAI Master and FFF Master Instructor and Two Handed Casting Instructor.

Conservation pages contain the unique Gowans fish weight calculator, catch & release rules and other angling orientated biological information. Destinations include advice for the traveling angler and features on Scotland, Norway, Alberta, New Brunswick, British Colombia, Ireland and Spain. A fully guided fishing vacation and fly casting instruction service is available in Scotland. Spey casting and single handed casting schools are held in Scotland and various other countries including USA, Canada, England, Ireland and Italy. If you would like to arrange a fly fishing school close to your location contact Ally for details. Tackling Trout is a popular trout fly fishing course organised to suit private groups of 3 to 8 persons. This is an exciting opportunity to learn lots about trout, fly fishing, fly casting and entomology. Spey Casting Made Easy is a proven top class means of learning to Spey Cast and fly fish for salmon, organised to suit private groups of 3 to 6 persons.

Fly fishing and fly casting information

1. Gift vouchers for fly casting instruction and fly fishing tuition
2. "Spey Casting Made Easy" DVD - Learn the essentials of efficient Spey Casting. Contact Ally now to order your copy.
3. Spey Casting Made Easy fly fishing course date March 9 – 11 - Based at Kenmore Hotel on the River Tay the price including two nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast, lunches, tea and coffee, course material, use of suitable fly fishing tackle and waders if required is £530 per person for each course (there is a small supplementary charge for single occupancy). Contact Ally for booking and other details.
4. River Tay and River Tummel Spey casting school "Spey Casting Made Easy" a great way to learn to fly fish for salmon. Spey casting and salmon fishing courses arranged to suit groups of three to six persons. Spey casting school content and other information.
5. Spey casting and salmon fishing schools - comments from customers

6. Fly fishing tackle reviews

   1. Introduction to reviews
   2. Spey line discussion
   3. Weight Forward Spey lines
   4. Rio AFS shooting heads
   5. Lee Wulff Triangle taper Spey lines
   6. Double taper lines
   7. Choosing shooting lines
   8. Seaguar and Grand Max Soft Plus Flurocarbon
7. Lots more questions and answers from "Ask Ally"
8. Tackling trout, trout fly fishing school – 29 June to 1 July -an all-inclusive package that teaches efficient trout fly casting and fly fishing and is suitable for beginners and more experienced anglers alike. The course will commence on the evening of Friday June 29, at Kenmore Hotel, Kenmore and continue through Saturday and Sunday until 17:00. The price including all meals and accommodation, use of tackle and waders if necessary and course material is £530 per person (there is a small supplementary charge for single occupancy) . Contact Ally for booking and other details.
9. Previous trout fly fishing school feedback and pictures.
10. Details of the trout fly fishing course content and program.

Alastair (Ally) Gowans BSc CEng APGAI, AAPGAI & FFF Master and Two Handed Fly Casting Instructor, Gamefishing consultant, writer, photographer and instructor.
Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

Web site designed, illustrated and produced by Alastair Gowans.