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 Ceri chats with Gwilym Hughes, who has achieved so much in his long fishing career. Top rod champion in both lough style and rivers Internationals, captained his country, produced a collection of fly fishing videos as well as an angling writer. He also played a big part in setting up the police fly-fishing association.
This week Ceri chats with Andy Taylor, editor of the UK’s leading Trout Fishing magazine ‘Today’s Flyfisher’. He has represented England at both the International Loughstyle and Bank fly-fishing teams.. He talks about growing up and fishing at his parents fishery in Cheshire and also working for the Angling trust promoting competition fishing in England.
This week Ceri chats with Alice Davies. She has represented her country at international level no fewer than a dozen times and been team captain on two occasions. She talks about how she started on local streams around her home as a small child and goes on to tell us about her love now for fly-fishing stillwaters. She would love to see more ladies take up fly-fishing and gives advice to any females interested in taking up the sport.
This week Ceri catches up with keen fisherman Tony Davies. Committed to protecting and restoring wild salmon and sea trout stocks across the rivers of Wales, Tony also played a big part in transforming reservoir trout fishing. With over 60 years fly-fishing, and in later years guiding, the chat with Tony meanders through his long fly-fishing career, the future of the sport and his extensive river and fish knowledge.
This week Ceri catches up with Alun Rees, one of Wales’ leading sea trout anglers. Alun shares his knowledge and experience spanning almost 40 years fishing for these enigmatic silver tourists. He talks tactics, stories and how he designed one of today’s widely fished fly patterns, the American Express.
In this episode Ceri talks about his 30 year fly-fishing career and his work as a photo journalist. He shares his plans for the podcast including interviews with fellow fishermen, gillies, boatmen, friends, champions and fisheries managers. There will also be tackle reviews, venue guides and even the winding yarn of the Big 23lb 12oz Corrib Catch.
