Presentation Fly Fishing

“This changes everything…”

Welcome to the place for anglers exploring the theme of presentation in fly fishing, with single-handed fly rod, principally for trout and grayling.  We are interested in the fly and its management and delivery such that we can achieve optimum presentation and control on a whole range of rivers and still waters.

Presentation is the central tenet to this whole area within the sport.  A fly fisher’s success is a direct consequence of how the fly is delivered, and its behaviour on and in the water.

Modern trout and grayling flies have evolved to be so much more than subjective, irrational collections of materials with variable ability to induce fish to take.  Today’s high-performance flies are pragmatic, with built-in characteristics that affect both their presentation and general impression of size and shape, GISS, in an imitative sense.

So too has today’s leader and tippet evolved from being a means of inconspicuously attaching fly to fly line; into an optimum delivery system yielding appropriate presentation in all ranges of circumstances and conditions facing the contemporary fly fisher.  This often involves little or no fly line whatsoever, with the leader-to-hand concept, and has revealed shortcomings in conventional fly lines and the out-dated AFTMA weighting system, though even now fly lines are being developed which more suitably meet the requirements of the presentation-orientated angler.

Here, you can link to publications and sites, and explore the core theme of presentation fly fishing, key to this fundamental and rapidly evolving idea that is driving the sport ahead.  You can also find details about the courses, in which you can explore to the very frontier of the sport.  It has already changed everything for river fly fishing with nymph and dry fly and we are at the dawn of a completely different approach on still waters.