Trout Fishing - My Days at Tenterden Trout Waters

Humans have already been fishing for many centuries. It started as way of survival but has end up being the favourite sport and pastime for lots of people in the world. The male of the species has for several years wanted to teach his offspring the secrets of the strangest art type of fishing, fly-fishing, or even more specifically in my own case, trout fishing. Many an anecdote, technique and favourite selection of fly has been passed down from father to son over the generations since the activity began. The initial of these anglers I suppose, started by catching and tying a real fly, damsel or otherwise, to the hook. Subsequently some lateral thinker decided a few components of bird's feather, deer hair or lamb's wool might be fashioned into the likeness of the real thing.

 

It is not at all times the male of the www.charlesfish.co.uk today, since the early Seventies, additional women have taken up the game as well.

 

So, let's get onto trout fishing, some call it game fishing, fly-fishing. You may call it, fun, a torment, an obsession, a discipline, an art. Whatever you call it, don't let anyone prevent you doing it!

 

Most of the trout fishing I have inked has been on lakes in the UK. Several excursions to a few of the small rivers, sometimes without an excessive amount of success but undeniably,'throwing flies at the water'is pure joy to me. Certainly one of my favourite spots is some three lakes of varying sizes called Tenterden Trout Waters, located at St. Michael's near the beautiful country town of Tenterden in Kent. Within earshot and sight of the Kent and East Sussex steam railway, this fishery lies in a tranquil valley in the weald of Kent just north of Romney Marsh.

 

I've spent many happy hours there surrounded by the stunning scenery either catching fish or seriously wondering why I find this sort of fishing so compulsive, when after six or seven hours of fishing, I haven't had one take.

 

I recall one time maybe 35 years ago now, certainly back in the mid to late Seventies, finding myself fishing at Tenterden Trout Waters on a single day as Charles Jardine. Charles you could well have heard about, but if not you certainly will because not just is he an excellent fisherman, he is also a prolific writer of books about them of fly fishing and fly tying, he's an artist and also works tirelessly to aid world conservation.

 

There have been maybe six or eight people on lakes that day, it absolutely was very hot, probably the hottest of the entire year so far. No-one appeared to be getting any takes; certainly, no-one took any fish as far as I possibly could see. Charles I saw was just sticking at it and low and behold by the time we left he'd were able to take too sizeable trout I think of six pounds each when all others failed.