Ian Troup Casting Clinic
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Ian Troup Casting Clinic
May 14, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Spring Tune-Up
Saturday May 14th, Grand River, Fergus, Ontario.
Hosted by Ian Troup, Professional Instructor and Guide (IntotheBacking.com)
Get Tuned up for the upcoming Season!!!
Get tuned up with 50 mins of personal instruction on the river, 1 on 1 to work through any casting fixes, fishing techniques or anything you’d like to get you ready for the season.
How’s it work? Email Ian at imtroup@gmail.com or DM me via Instagram Ian Troup (@imtroup) and choose your 1st and 2nd choice timeslot.
**Please be on time, with your equipment ready to go as instruction will start promptly at the times listed**
Cost – $50
Location – Grand River, Fergus
1 hr Timeslots: 8am to 4pm (4pm – 5pm being the last time slot)
Ian has been a fly fishing guide and professional instructor for over 20 years with a passion for education. Ian’s top priority is improving your fly fishing skills to have more fun on the water. Ian is one of the first and only to offer guiding & instruction on stillwater (lake) angling and European techniques, with unmatched expertise on UK lake techniques including loch style, new approaches to fishing streamers and wet flies with mastery in European dry fly and nymphing.
A firm believer that you never stop learning, Ian spends his free time improving on the latest and most innovative techniques to pass along to clients. Ian fishes regularly with the best anglers across the globe, including multiple World and National Champions and guiding mentorship from the late Ian Colin James.
Ian has a passion for competitive angling and coached the first and only all women team to compete in the Canadian National Championships. Ian is the former Canadian National Vice champion and current member of Team Canada, having the honour to represent Canada internationally, including Team Canada’s first ever Gold Medal performance at the 2016 Commonwealth championships with Silver the following year, most recently competing at the World Fly Fishing championships in Tasmania.
Ian was certified as a FFF Fly Casting instructor in 2008 by renowned casting expert Bruce Richards. Ian’s guides on his home waters of the Grand, Maitland, Bayfield and Saugeen rivers for steelhead, resident trout and smallmouth bass with access to private trout lakes