The pupils arrived bright and early at the beautiful surroundings of the South West Lakes Trust Wimbleball Lake Country Park.
22 students were split into two groups, each to have an hour's fly fishing tuition and kayaking, the two groups then switched over to learn the other skill. Having now mastered the individual skills of fly fishing and kayaking it was time for a BBQ lunch with some rainbow trout caught earlier in the day. Once everyone was refreshed, they were paired up and given a two person kayak, a fly rod, and a paddle, the pupils then had an amazing afternoon of exploration on Wimbleball Lake searching out those quite spots where they could use the casting skills to try and catch that big one.
Unfortunately, the fish were not playing, there were a few nibbles but no one managed to catch anything. Nevertheless, all the participants involved had an amazing day, they all said they would love to come back and have another day fly fishing and kayaking, so look's like we have a group of young people who have been bitten by the "FLYYAK"ing bug.