Although Ernst is a repeat Red Tagger who loves his fly fishing, he was very keen for his wife, Vanessa, to try it out as he thought they could enjoy the beautifull scenery and tranquility that goes with it.

To this end, Ernst planned a four day tour with Vanessa joining us as a beginner, on the last two days.

Vanessa got the hang of the casting quite quickly, but the trout where very unresponsive for the first day hence the introduction of the term ‘lack of fishmanship’.

However, day two on the river was a different matter and Vanessa soon got both the hang of the moving water techniques and the fell of the wild brown trout, with a couple of nice stream fish to hand and many more chances during the day.

Ernst was not to be denied his time in the sun, having set a new season high of 18 to hand (all released) on his opening day.