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north east regional extra | September 18 - 24, 2024

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September 18 - 24, 2024

Discover the skill of fly fishing By CHLOE JAENICKE

◆ EXPERT ADVICE: Bryan King, Gary Scholz, Ray Beavis and Clint Godwin from the Wangaratta Fly Fishing Club are hosting their annual fly fishing course in October. PHOTO: Chloe Jaenicke

THE Wangaratta Fly Fishing Club is once again holding its annual fly fishing course on Sunday, October 13. Club member, Ray Beavis, said the annual event has been running for over 30 years and is designed to introduce people to the hobby of fly fishing. “It’s for the beginners or people who have perhaps tried it but haven’t preserved or those who want to improve a little bit,” he said. “We tailor the course to the skills for the people doing it, but it is aimed as an introduction to fly fishing.” During the course, participants will learn about the equipment required for fly fishing, fly casting, fly selection, basic gear and tackle, fly tying and stream-craft. Mr Beavis said the course has evolved over the years to become more practical and adapt to the changes in fly fishing. “Our presentations and the way we run the course is a little more hands on, with cast intuition out on the grass and actual fly fishing,” he said. “The basic concept of fly fishing hasn’t altered much, but the types of fly rods and the materials the rods are made of are far more high tech then they were 30 or 40 years ago.” Over his time at the club, Mr Beavis has found many people do continue with the hobby, despite the skill that is involved. “Fly fishing is not necessarily easy so you need to have some basic skills and practice those skills and persevere and some people are happy to do that while some people discover that it’s not what they really want to do,” he said. “I relate it a little bit to snow skiing...when you first go out skiing you do a lot of falling over and it’s challenging, but once you master the basics of snow skiing its great fun to whiz down the slopes.

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