Where To Go To Fish
Anybody who really wants to fish has little
difficulty these days finding out where to go. Tourist offices up and down the
country have booklets, leaflets, brochures containing lists and lists of
offering facilities at moderate prices. And for the trout fisherman these waters
are particularly accessible and most of them cheap in price, if we compare them
with salmon fishing.
As a beginner, the main thing you have to remember is
that you cannot fish anywhere you like, more so with
wade fishing, without a permit. Waters -
rivers and lakes - belong to somebody and if they contain fish you must have the
written or printed permission of the owner before you wield a rod. These owners
- or managements representing the owners - are usually local angling
associations, local government authorities, private fisheries organized for the
sport, or fishing hotels.
Depending on how limid or daring you feel as a
beginner, there are four ways of learning to fish on a water:
- You can apply to join angling club in your own
district and go with them on their outings.
- You can take a few days’ holiday at one of the
fishing schools run by many hotels, whose addresses are usually listed
month.
- By month in the classified columns of the fishing
magazines.
- You can take a holiday - short or long - at a
fishing hotel and use its nearby river for your early steps in angling.
- You can simply walk into any fishing tackle shop,
buy a permit for the local river, and fish.
Each of these methods, of course, has its benefits and
disadvantages.
Joining a club costs a little money in subscriptions, and requires you to find a
sponsoring member, but it does bring you into the swim’ right away among fellow
anglers.
A hotel fishing school brings you into company with strangers, but you do get
first-class tuition, and hopefully the guarantee of
catching your first trout. Going to a
fishing hotel can be rather daunting where you don’t know anyone and find
yourself among a few’ professionals who know the local water backwards, but
hotel waters are usually very good and you are assured some privacy.
Conversely, taking a ticket from the fishing tackle dealer in a country village
can result in your fishing with dozens of other locals, but this is usually the
least expensive method.
Regardless of how you choose your fishing water, and
bearing in mind that it may be your first experience at fishing, try to select a
river that has a good reputation as a trout water. Some salmon and seatrout
water have virtually no brown trout in them as they support only migratory fish.
Other rivers only have coarse fish and no trout. A good fishing guidebook of the
district will keep you right.