Trout Fishing - My Days at Tenterden Trout Waters

Human beings have already been fishing for many centuries. It started as way of survival but has now end up being the favourite sport and pastime for many individuals in the world. The male of the species has for several years wanted to teach his offspring the secrets of the strangest art form of fishing, fly-fishing, or maybe more specifically in my case, trout fishing. Many a story, technique and favourite range of fly has been passed down from father to son on the generations since the activity began. The initial of those anglers I suppose, started by catching and tying a genuine fly, damsel or else, to the hook. Subsequently some lateral thinker decided a couple of items of bird's feather, deer hair or lamb's wool might be fashioned to the likeness of the real thing.

It's not necessarily the male of the species nowadays, since the early Seventies, additional women have adopted the activity as well.

So, let's get onto trout fishing, some call it game www.charlesfish.co.uk , fly-fishing. You can call it, fun, a torment, an obsession, a discipline, an art. Whatever you call it, do not let anyone stop you carrying it out!

All of the trout fishing I have inked has been on lakes in the UK. A few excursions to some of the small rivers, sometimes without an excessive amount of success but undeniably,'throwing flies at the water'is pure joy to me. One of my favourite spots is some three lakes of varying sizes called Tenterden Trout Waters, located at St. Michael's nearby 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 have 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 have not had one take.

I remember onetime maybe 35 years ago now, certainly back in the mid to late Seventies, finding myself fishing at Tenterden Trout Waters for a passing fancy day as Charles Jardine. Charles you could well have heard of, but if not you certainly will because not merely is he an exceptional fisherman, he is also a prolific writer of books on the subject of fly fishing and fly tying, he's an artist and also works tirelessly to help world conservation.

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