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”
This week Ceri chats with Professional Fly Tyer, Jimmy Tyrrell. He talks about his passion for fly tying and how it all started and became his full time profession for over 30 years. He also talks about his love for the rivers around his home in County Laois, Ireland. He is a guide and angling writer and gives instruction on flyfishing as well as running tying classes.
This week Ceri chats with Alan Parfitt. He talks about his passion for wild trout in the remote wild mountain lakes of Wales. He often walks for hours to get to his locations and has caught in over 50 waters hidden up in the hills from the South Wales valleys to the dramatic mountain ranges of Snowdonia. He also talks about his love of flyfishing for seatrout on the beaches of Hoy at Orkney, Scotland.
This week Ceri chats with John Buckley, from Killarney, Ireland. John has fished the lakes and rivers around his home since a small boy. He talks of Lough Leane and Upper Lake while fishing for trout and salmon, plus the sea trout of Lough Currane. He has fly-fished competitively all over the world but he tells of his love and passion of fishing in County Kerry.
This week Ceri chats with John Horsey. John is the highest English International fly-fishing capped angler in both Rivers and Loughstyle. He is a full time guide and instructor at Chew Valley Lake for both Trout and Pike. He talks about his competition successes and passion for big pike and also his fears and uncertain future of Bristol Reservoirs.
This week Ceri chats with Galway angler Mark Regan. He has fished the Corrib since a small boy, and has a wealth of knowledge and experience, which he shares. He talks of his passion for Lough Corrib, early season fishing and duckfly holes as well as summer caenis. A great listen to wet your appetite for the coming season.
This weeks guest has been one of the countries most successful competition anglers, both in rivers and lough style. Has been top Lexus Individual as well as representing Wales at International level gaining no fewer than 19 caps. In 2016 he gave up his UK competition scene and moved to New Zealand to start a new life with his wife Lisa, who is also a Welsh fly-fishing international. Ceri calls him at his South Island home where Dean tells us about his new experiences and what New Zealand has to offer.
This Christmas Special episode has snippets from all of Ceri’s guests which have appeared on his 25 podcasts since its launch in July. A great listen with chats from leading names in fly-fishing with tactics, funny stories and poignant last casts. Enjoy!
This episode Ceri chats with Illtyd Griffiths, one of the biggest names in the sea trout fishing world. He chats about his love for his local River Dyfi, plus his overseas trips to Kola and Argentina which he has fly-fished for the last 20 years. He is a mine of information and shares some of his knowledge including sea trout behavior and tactics as well as stories of some impressive catches from over the years.
This episode Ceri chats with Stephen Gale, he talks about his involvement and love for Eglwys Nunydd Reservoir, the oldest running fly-fishing venue in the country. Steve is also a great story teller and he tells some funny stories and events while fishing with Ceri over the years. Rutland, Hanningfield, Llandegfedd and Ireland to name a few. If you are looking for a laugh, some of these stories will deffnitely put a smile on your face.
This episode Ceri chats with Jamie Miller, of Garnffrwd, one of the countries most successful and oldest Trout Fisheries. He tells us how it all started and come about, what goes on behind the scenes to also rearing of the trout at the onsite fish farm. He is also manager of the Welsh International Bank Fly-fishing team.
This week Ceri tells the story of the record salmon of 64lb caught by Georgina Ballantine on the River Tay.
The story is Georgina Ballantines’s own account which appeared in ‘The Field’ 1922
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 chats with Colin Folan. Fishery manager and ghillie at Lough Inagh Lodge Hotel, Connemara. He talks about his love for sea trout and rearing salmon smolts for both Inagh and Ballynahinch, plus he tells many tales of fly-fishing, dapping and ghilliing over the years for clients.
