Blue Sky's Fly Fishing Schools

Feel free to phone, fax or e-mail us at anytime to participate or purchase a school for a friend, relative or spouse. We also have gift certificates available for customers to give as a gift for Christmas, Birthdays or awards to corporate employees. The certificates can be made out so an individual can attend one of our schools or for a gift or in any dollar denomination you may wish to give for any individual or section in a work place. Many of our schools usually involve small groups consisting of a father and son, husband and wife, corporate colleagues or a few fishing buddies. This really allows the participants to feel comfortable and relaxed allowing each individual to really enjoy and get the most out of our programs.

We also offer some fun and very enlightening fly fishing courses that will immensely improve your knowledge base, understanding and success rates. This means we can take the initial confusion out of fly fishing for you and help you to more fully relax and enjoy your time while you are in an actual fishing situation. We feel our instructors are very well qualified they are well-spoken, patient, have great personalities are very knowledgeable and are excellent teachers.

We provide a variety of programs that we will adjust the content of, to suit your specific needs or level of expectation from beginner to expert. The cost of each program will vary depending on duration, type of school and level of instruction. If an individual wants personal lessons one on one with special individual attention, this obviously costs more than a school involving more participants. Please feel free to contact us for rates on any of the below schools.

 Lake & River Schools

We will be offering informative hands on schools involving a full day being spent on location at anyone of the streams/lakes covered in this website. We will try to schedule your school for a day on the of water of your choice when an insect hatch your interested in is hopefully scheduled to take place. This will allow you to be on the water during heavy insect activity allowing you to have the opportunity to learn about the selected insect hatch/hatches first hand. This method allows us to clarify the insects complete lifecycle and vulnerable stages in a concrete visual manner and go onto explain what stages trout concentrate there feeding efforts on. We will then take you through a well-stocked fly box showing you a complete selection of very effective fly patterns, which imitate the vulnerable stages of this insects lifecycle. We will also cover fishing skills such as locating and reading productive water, trout feeding patterns, fishing strategies, presentation, productive fly patterns and casting skills.

There will be plenty of hands on insect sampling on the stream bottom, stream surface and airborne adult insect sampling with nets. This will ensure you are aware of how, when and why site specific aquatic and terrestrial insects become a food item on the trout’s main menu. The aquatic insects, terrestrial insects and forage food forms that present an easy feeding opportunity for the trout are the particular food forms we will focus on in this program. This program will clarify to the participant that it is a specific feeding opportunity or situation that attracts the trout’s culinary interests not a casual haphazard preference for a non-productive single food item.

The specific sets of factors that must be present for a trout to feed efficiently are critical to both good health and long-term survival. These critical issues are an easy meal that is present in a substantial quantity, at the same time becoming very vulnerable in a susceptible highly nutritional format, and require little or no energy in an effort to consume it. These important aquatic insects that initiate the trout’s selective culinary interests usually hatch in heavy numbers over a prolonged period at the same time of the angling season and time of day, year in and year out in a specific order. The trout get accustomed to their annual appearance through repetition and become selective to both physical insect features and lifecycle vulnerabilities. These especially wonderful insects are the fly fisherman’s real interest and anglers have gained a deep appreciation for these, specific aquatic insects.

We will also cover what good casting involves throughout the program; time will be well spent on all the basic casting skills. Such as casting accuracy, angle of presentation, the advantages and success gentle presentation accomplishes, why drag free floats are so important, as well as why line control and line manipulation are so critical to success. If you feel you would like to cover all or any one specific stream presentation cast we will set aside time for this. The ultimate objective of course is to provide the participant with the opportunity to approach, cast to and catch some decent trout that are actively feeding in or on the surface film to the insect we are in the process of learning about.

FLY FISHING SCHOOLS

The fly fishing schools we run are not pre-scheduled we allow interested individuals or corporations to book at a time that suits their schedule or safety/awards programs. The programs we run are usually limited to one through three participants intentionally. Over the years of running these schools participant feed back has been unanimous that limiting class size really personalizes the experience. The small class size allows the students to experience plenty of personal attention throughout the program and supportive hands on guidance during practical exercises. Our instructors also feel the participants get the best value for money and transference of knowledge as well as physical help with the mechanics and physical skills involved in this new world of fly fishing.

Feel free to phone, fax or e-mail us at anytime to participate or purchase a school for a friend, relative or spouse. We also have gift certificates available for customers to give as a gift for Christmas, Birthdays or awards to corporate employees. The certificates can be made out so an individual can attend one of our schools or for a gift or in any dollar denomination you may wish to give for any individual or section in a work place. Many of our schools usually involve small groups consisting of a father and son, husband and wife, corporate colleagues or a few fishing buddies. This really allows the participants to feel comfortable and relaxed allowing each individual to really enjoy and get the most out of our programs.

RATES FOR SCHOOLS

Note: By full day we mean a complete eight hours with a half hour to an hour for lunch to be determined with participants during actual program.

To Book a school see the below listed contact information and get in touch with the Shop.

We also offer personal instruction by the hour @ a rate of $45.00/hr.

Our payment policy is 50% down upon booking, and the remainder due upon commencement of any program or guided trip.

Funds payable by money order or check.

These rates for our schools will remain as shown for 2008 year.