John Tyzack
John Tyzack made his first cast as a fisherman in the River Taw estuary at the tender age of four years, "hooked" for life just as surely as his first fish which was a schoolie bass of at least six ounces!
Fishing was restricted to family holidays in the south west for a number of years until a move to the Midlands placed John literally a stone's throw from the River Trent. Self-taught as a coarse fisherman, John moved onto new and exciting species such as chub, roach and dace which were seriously prolific in the middle Trent in the mid 70s.
We all have one definitive life changing moment to look back on and John's occurred in 1978 at the age of 13 when a chance encounter between his father and 'a bloke in the pub' resulted in John being presented with two glass fibre fly fishing rods. Since then it has been trout and grayling all the way.
Entirely self-taught, John learned and refined his techniques and methods across a variety of rivers, but his favourite venue was and possibly always will be the River Wharfe. John's first trout on a fly came from the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey, a venue he still fishes to this day.
John entered his first fly fishing competition in 1997, winning the North West river eliminator and proceeding onto the 1998 National Final, narrowly missing out on a place in the following year's England Rivers team. Since then however, John has qualified to fish for England on the rivers in every single year 1999 to 2009. During this time John has won the English National Rivers Championship on five occasions, and has several team gold medals in the Home Rivers International, including an individual win in 2002.
John has also represented his country twice in Home Loch-Style Internationals as well as 3 European Championships and 6 World Championships.
He works as a professional fly fishing guide and fully qualified AAPGAI instructor offering comprehensive fly fishing guiding and tuition services, fly casting lessons, as well as evening presentations and fly tying demonstrations. He contributes to various fly fishing publications and has appeared on a number of television programmes with fly fishing as a theme.
To contact John and for any further information please go to www.johntyzack.co.uk.
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