Guided Fly Fishing Service
The very best fly fishing guides and fly fishing instructors Scotland can offer
Flyfishing-directory.co.uk provides a top quality guided fly fishing service on a large number of rivers, fisheries and lochs throughout Scotland.
Our fly fishing guides and fly fishing instructors have been fishing Scotland for decades and can pass on their full knowledge and expertise to give you the very best chance of success and enjoyment. Fully guided Salmon, Grayling, Trout and Sea Trout days are available within Scotland.
To make the very most out of your limited fishing time, it is not enough to be fishing in a good area on a good water. You need to be fishing the best places, on the best stretches of water, at the right time of year, using the right flies, with the most effective technique. Our fly fishing guides personal knowledge and experience enables them to provide you with the very best advice and guidance to ensure that you have a great days fly fishing experience.
All of our fly fishing guides hold nationally recognised STANIC, AAPGAI or SGAIC (Register of Experienced Fly Fishing Instructors, Schools and Guides) qualifications. They are also fully insured for any unfortunate mishap that may happen on your trip.
What we provide:
The specific services offered by our fly fishing guides include:
Access to top-class and often exclusive fly fishing beats
Guiding, including provision of water-specific flies
Instruction, including method and water-specific technique coaching and fly casting tuition.
If required; fly fishing equipment hire, including rod/reel/line, waders, flies, etc.
Chauffeur service, including hotel or railway station collection/return
Pre-trip advice regarding tackle, flies, accommodation, nearby places of interest, etc.
Cost
Fully guided fly fishing days start from as little as £180 with the cost varying depending on the location being fished; the number of people fishing; the time of year; and whether it is a weekend or a mid-week date.
Our price includes the dedicated services of an experienced local fly fishing guide, the fishing day permit for the location, hire of all the necessary fly fishing tackle, waders, flies, etc if required. and local railway station or accommodation collection/return.
Please contact us for an exact guided fly fishing day quotation for your preferred location and date.
Conditions of Booking
Booking for specific dates:
Your date is confirmed once we have received your booking deposit plus any specified fishing day ticket costs. If we have not received your deposit/fishing day ticket payment within 10 days of your booking request being made we reserve the right to offer that date to other clients. The balance of the cost must be paid on or before the fishing day.
Costs for guided fly fishing days
Please contact us for a cost quotation.
Number of People | Full-day midweek | Full-day weekend |
1 | £180 | £210 |
2 | £270 | £300 |
3 | £350 | £380 |
4 | £420 | £450 |
A full-day is eight hours (to include a one hour break). Note that bank holidays count as weekend days.
Payment of bookings
The receipt supplied is valid once we have received either your booking deposit payment of £75 or full payment. If you initially pay just the booking deposit the balance of the cost becomes due once the date of the fishing has been booked and confirmed with the booking recipient. In this case we will re-contact you at this time to request payment of the balance. If that balance payment is not received at least one month ahead of the agreed fishing date we reserve the right to cancel the fishing day of the booking recipient.
Cancellations and Transfers
Once a deposit has been paid and a voucher has been sent out by us for your booking we do not accept voucher cancellations and we do not refund any monies paid. Our vouchers are valid for use for a two year period. The voucher recipient must contact us within two years of the issue of the voucher to book their fly fishing experience. If they do not contact us within two years then the voucher is no longer valid and all monies paid by the provider will be forfeited. Our vouchers are not transferable without prior arrangement with Flyfishing-Directory.co.uk and are not to be offered for resale.
Postponements
All our guides/instructors are self-employed and in many cases fly fishing guiding/ instruction is their full time profession and only source of income. Once you have paid your deposit and your booking is in their diary they can accept no other work opportunities for that date. Thus by canceling or postponing the date of your fly fishing day you are reducing their opportunity to take paid work on that day. Once you request a specific date you should be committed to that date. If you postpone your date at short notice for whatever reason you may lose all or some of your monies paid (see notice periods below). If we cancel or postpone your date you will lose no monies paid and you may either receive a full refund or carry these monies forward to a future date.
Notice Period
Peak season – 1st April to 31st October – two weeks. Low-season – 1st November to 31st March – one week. If you contact us ahead of these times to give us notice of your wish to postpone your day then your £75 booking deposit can be carried across to an alternative future date. However any fishing day ticket costs paid will be forfeited.
Poor conditions on the fishing day
Bad weather, bad water conditions or lack of fish catches are outside of the control of Flyfishing-Directory.co.uk and its guides/instructors. In the event that a day is spoilt by any factor outside of the control of our company and its guides/instructors no refund of any monies paid will be made.
Should the chosen river be high or unsafe to fish we reserve the right to substitute the river location with a suitable stillwater or alternative river location option. In matters of safety the decision of the guide/instructor is final and no refund of monies paid will be made if it is necessary to stop fishing at any stage during the day.
Failure to attend
Our fly fishing guide/instructor will wait for 60 minutes at the agreed meeting point. If you have not made contact with your guide/instructor and agreed a later meeting time and do not arrive at the agreed meeting point within 60 minutes of the agreed meeting time your day will be deemed to have been cancelled by yourself and all monies paid will be forfeited.
The length of the fishing day
A full days fishing/instruction is up to 8 hours to include a one hour break. The 8 hours, to be taken from the agreed meeting time. During the winter season after the clocks have changed days will be shorter. Winter days will start at around 9am and end at dusk or 5pm, whichever is the soonest.