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Marshall Fly Fishing

Welcome to Marshall Fly Fishing

WELCOME to Mike Marshall’s website which will have descriptions of fly fishing and its relationship to physical and mental wellbeing. These include understanding the subject from a comprehensive book, videos, a fly casting machine and tuition in Essex. However, with time, the menu will become further occupied as new fly rods and associated tackle become available.

Some people think that fly fishing is too difficult for them, but this has proved not to be the case. This author has successfully taught countless students with a combination of demonstration, practical tuition and verbal description, all carefully selected to suit the individual concerned.
Fishing in general has recently been publicized as good for mental wellbeing, but behind this thought is a sedentary activity requiring lots of time and patience. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily a good thing, because it gives the participant time to dwell on the less pleasant things in life. Whereas fly fishing is all-action whether it is: moving to find fish; casting to them; even retrieving the fly by hand. Something is always happening, often in response to nature which is completely absorbing, so worries are forgotten.
Walking in the countryside is often said to be good physical exercise and to provide a beneficial connection with the marvels of nature, thus enhancing wellbeing. Fly fishing provides all of this with the added hope of good fishing and casting as an exercise in itself.
It is rare to find any written descriptions of the pressures caused by work, as disclosed in confidence by many of Mike’s clients, so he wrote ‘Fly Fishing for Business Wellbeing’ which is available through the menu above. It explains his various difficulties of managing companies against a backdrop of naked capitalism, in relation to a wide-ranging fly fishing career from which the writer concludes, the wellbeing achieved was responsible for his mental survival. Furthermore, the many fly fishing exploits described will increase even experienced angler’s catches by reading, for example, about feeding stillwater trout and why some salmon take a fly.
Apart from taking the usual outdoor precautions, Covid-19 has had little effect on fly-fishing, but casting tuition is a very different matter. Having discovered that casting students learned the subtle accelerations and stops of fly casting amazingly quickly by physically holding their hand and casting with them, Mike always achieved dramatic results. So please imagine the frustration of keeping two metres away, describing the actions verbally and taking a long time to do so? Well, ever the inventor, he has developed the unique casting machine you will see by pressing the ‘Tuition Essex’ button – slow results, including advanced double haul, are eliminated.
For those of you unable to visit Essex you will find that, additional to the book, casting videos are available which take the watcher through the whole process to the level they choose for themselves. With the benefit of feedback it seems that many people derive the most benefit from a book when studying fishing methods, but a video scores highly when it comes to the dynamics of casting. In fact many sit in front of a screen and mimic the movements, which always turns out to be a much less frantic experience than they expected.
Casting practise on any convenient piece of short grass is good exercise with a particular focus on mental sharpness, which is important as the years pass. Fly fishing can continue long after age stops strenuous activities!

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