Lessons for novice to experienced fly fishers
Fly fishing is a wonderful relaxing sport that takes you to some of the most beautiful locations. Our lessons and courses cater for all abilities and aim to improve your knowledge, technique – and chances of catching a fish!
Like any sport, fly fishing requires instruction, coaching and practice to learn, improve and succeed. The key to success in fly fishing is good presentation of the fly and good presentation requires a good casting technique.
Blue Zulu Fly Fishing tuition and courses can teach you the fundamentals of fly casting, help you improve your presentation and help identify and eliminate any faults in your technique. Our casting instructor, Mark Purvis, is accredited as a Professional Game Angling Instructor by the Game Angling Instructors Association.
If you want to fish for salmon or take up saltwater flyfishing we can help you master the specialist techniques required, including understanding the complicated array of modern spey casting techniques.
We have a number of local stillwater venues which are ideal for fly casting tuition and also offer an excellent chance of catching your first trout. There is nothing better than putting your newly acquired skills to immediate use.
All tackle can be provided, you’ll just need to bring your wellies and a pair of sunglasses. Read more on what learning entails in our blog post Learning to Fly Fish.
Individual and group lessons
Book an individual session to focus on specific areas for improvement or choose one of our ‘Introduction to … ‘ courses.
All ages catered for!
Learning to fly fish
We offer fly fishing tuition for up to four people, depending on the type of lesson.
Individual lessons will be tailored to your specific requirements. Options include:
- Casting tuition (2 hours)
- Spey casting basics (2 hours)
- Introduction to fly fishing (full day/half day)
- Moving from stillwaters to river fishing (full day/half day)
- Rivercraft: learning to read the river (full day/half day)
- Grayling fishing (full day/half day)
Individual fly fishing tuition is available throughout the year, subject to fisheries being open. Some stillwater trout fisheries remain open and fish well throughout the winter. The trout fishing season on rivers runs from March or April to the end of September, depending on the river. Grayling are in season from June 16th to March 15th. Casting tuition on grass is available at any time!
Please contact us to find out more or register interest.
Guide prices (not including permits)
Members of Cotswold Flyfishers are entitled to a discount on guiding and tuition fees.
| 2026 season | Price | CFF Member |
|---|---|---|
| Full guided day | £250 | £190 |
| Half guided day | £170 | £135 |
| Full guided day (two rods) | £325 | |
| Half guided day (two rods) | £230 | |
| Casting tuition (2 hours) | £100 | £80 |
Prices include loan of appropriate tackle and supply of flies but do not include fishing permit costs, rod licence or refreshments.
A full day is generally from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm and will include a break for lunch. A half day is 4 hours, usually 9:00 am to 1:00 pm or 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
You will need an Environment Agency rod licence. These are available for 1-day, 8-day or 12-months online here.
“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.”
Theodore Gordon
Blue Zulu Fly Fishing 