Ceri Jones is a passionate fly-fisherman, professional photographer and holder of the Lough Corrib Ferox Trout Record [23lb 12oz].
The Casting with Ceri Jones podcast is the story of Ceri’s career, the days, weeks and years spent casting from boats and riverbanks. Tales of the catches, the tackle, the lakes, the rivers, the ones that were landed and the ones that got away.
Interviews on location and in the studio, with fellow fishermen, gillies, boatmen, friends, champions and fisheries managers. There will be tackle reviews, venue guides and even the winding yarn of the Big Corrib Catch.
So pull up a chair, settle back, relax and enjoy an uninterrupted hour of fishing talk. Because as Ceri always says “The next best thing to being out fishing … is talking about it”
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This week’s episode I chat with Martha Leeming. Born in Colombia, lived in England and now lives in Alberta, Canada. She is a passionate competition angler with many English caps and achievements to her name. While in England she worked for Orvis and was also involved with Casting for Recovery. She is a very skilful and experienced angler but very modest with it. She now enjoys competing on the international scene representing the Canadian Women’s World Team.
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This weeks episode I tell of my experiences of flyfishing when I started as a boy and vist my local lake Llyn Fawr with my original rod which I made and Rimfly reel and fished with old school flies to see how well they work today. Had some great fishing with Rainbows to 5lb goes to show fish dont follow fashion.
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This week I chat with Phillippa Hake. Based in Halifax, West Yorkshire she talks about her local River Calder which is only a short walk from her home and also her love for grayling and a recent trip to Bosnia. Her tying skills have not gone unnoticed as she now works full time for Semperfli running the social media side of the business.
This week’s episode I chat with passionate competition angler, Denis Goulding. He is currently coach or the Irish Youth Team which recently had gold at the International at Llyn Clywedog. He talks about how the team won and tactics which brought them success. He goes on to tell us of his Brown Bowl achievement at the Senior International at Lough Melvin last year, plus his love for Lough Conn and Lene.
This week’s episode I chat with one of Ireland’s most successful Ladies International anglers, Linda Straghan. She has 11 caps and 2 Brown Bowls to her name. She tells us how she started fishing and gives advice to women wanting to get into the sport and her top flies which has brought her so much success on the competition scene. She also goes on to say how fly-fishing has helped her through cancer, a truly inspirational woman.
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This week I head to Garnffrwd Fishery, Carmarthenshire and chat with owner Jamie Miller. I chat with him at the lodge veranda at the lakeside to shelter from the rain. He tells us how the season has been, his retirement from being Manager of the Welsh Bank Team,, C&R and his expectations for the coming months, plus his new addition for anglers wanting to stay over, the bell tent.
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The podcast is now 3 years old and to celebrate this episode I have put together just a small selection of some of the most popular and my favourite funny stories. With over 140 episodes and 125 guests its been quite a time and loved every minute of it and made a lot of new friends. I want to thank all my guests, listeners and especially to my Patrons for your support in keeping it going.
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This week’s guest I chat with Anglian Water Ranger at Rutland, Nigel Savage. He has caught both big rainbows and browns mostly by fishing his preferred and most successful method of fishing the floating fry and other roach and perch imitations. He also talks of what to expect the next few weeks including the pin fry and gives his choice of flies to bring success.
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This weeks episode I head to the hills and visit Llyn Clywedog one of the leading trout waters in the UK. If Clywedog was a football team it would be in the Champions League for sure. Not only is it a well run water it is set in the most majestic surroundings in the Cambrian Mountains. I fished it this week and in this podcast I talk of how we did, successful methods, plus areas to try.
Some big fish are coming out this month, dont miss out on the action.
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I love the autumn, the warm golden tones of the fall. Cooler water temperatures bring the trout on the feed and closer in to the banks searching for food to pack on weight ready for the winter months ahead. This weeks episode I give my methods, tactics and proven fly patterns for you to try this autumn, which have brought me success on stillwaters over the years.
This weeks podcast episode I'm fishing Rutland Water with England International, Craig Barr where we target big browns. We chat about our day plus Craig tells us his methods, areas and flies which has brought him success and what to expect the next few weeks.
If you love big browns?...... you going to looooove this!
This weeks podcast I head down to Devon and Cornwall and fish both Colliford & Wimbleball on probably the hottest days in nearly a hundred years. Fishing was tough but good to see plenty of fry feeders already active on Wimbleball and had some fantastic fishing at Colliford for wild browns and to my surprise wild common carp.
This weeks episode I talk about summer hatches and what to expect the next few weeks on stillwaters, lakes and loughs. From flying ants, damsels, crane flies, sedges to daphnia feeders. With the right tactics and flies you can turn the baking hot blanks into a sizzling success.
This weeks episode join me as I fish and target resident rainbows at Llyn Fawr. For the first time in a few seasons the steep bank has been inaccessible due to being overgrown and bankside willows. Now with lower water levels I head over to see if I can tempt the fish which havent had a fly cast to them for some time.
This week's episode I head west to Papermill Fishery, Swansea. My guest created the fishery from sctrach and opened its doors to anglers 18 years ago and its still going strong today. He tells of the trials and tribulations and tasks of what it takes to run a successful fishery. He is also a passionate fisherman and tells of the competition scene he runs at this quality venue plus some funny stories along the way.
