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Welcome to the First Nature website, where you will find thousands of pictures and hundreds of articles about wildlife and ecology to help you enjoy and learn more about the natural world - together with information about First Nature Flyfishing Courses on the famous River Teifi in West Wales. > Details...

Master the Art of Flyfishing for Sea Trout - 4th/5th July and 18th/19th July 2009
Join us on our renowned Sea Trout Fishing Course and gain the skills and knowledge required for success in this most challenging and exciting branch of the sport. Catching a big sea trout on the fly is a amazing experience. Our courses are held on a private beat of Britain's most famous and prolific sea trout river, the Teifi in West Wales. Details...

First Nature Books and CD-ROM Guides

With more than 20,000 copies sold since 2006, among the most popular in our range of wildlife and ecology publications is a full-colour illustrated series entitled Wonderful Wildflowers of Wales...

Volume 1: Woodland and Waysides, is a guide to the most lovely wildflowers to be seen beside roads and country lanes, woodland walks, wasteland and hedgerows. With 120 colour photographs, a Colour Chart to help with identification and date strips showing when each species blooms, this is surely the most user-friendly guide to the most beautiful flowers to be found in the wild in Wales. >Details...

Volume 2: Seashores and Coastal Cliffs, was launched in December 2005 and high up in the top best-selling wildflower books. Copies are available from our >Details...

Volume 3: Mountains, Moorland and meadows, published in February 2006, in the same full-colour illustrated format with in-habitat and close-up pictures, also has a wealth of interesting facts about each of the species. >Details...

Volume 4: Waterside and Wetlands, published in August 2006, perfect-bound and in the same full-colour illustrated format with in-habitat and close-up pictures and a wealth of interesting facts about each of the waterside and in-stream species. >Details...

Wild Orchids in Wales, by Sue Parker, is a companion volume to the Wonderful Wildflowers of Wales. In this beautifully illustrated guide are whole plant and closeup pictures of the wild orchids found in the Welsh countryside. >Details...

Wild Orchids in The Burren, by Pat O'Reilly and Sue Parker, is the first full-colour plain language guide to finding and identifying the native orchids of Ireland's most famous limestone pavement landscape. >Details... (Also available via Amazon...)

Version 3 of our Multimedia Guide to Fungi is now available, with hundreds of beautiful colour photographs of mushrooms and toadstools - many more than are featured on the website - clearly categorised with identification guides and a wealth of fascinating facts about each species. >Details...

All First Nature publications are available from our online bookshop and from good bookshops in the UK and overseas.

Meet us at the 2009 CLA Game Fair

We provide casting demonstrations and fly casting lessons at angling shows and game fairs, the most famous of which is of course the CLA Game Fair.

The 2009 Game Fair will be held from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2009 at Belvoir Castle (near Grantham), Leicestershire, and we will look forward to meeting you after our daily fly casting and flyfishingdemontrations. >Details...

National Guidebooks for people taking up flyfishing

Pat and Sue designed and wrote for the Salmon & Trout Association the illustrated Guide to Trout and Grayling Fishing and Guide to Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing, copies of which are given FREE to people attending First Nature flyfishing courses.

There's a wealth of online help available her on the First Nature website. You will find information on fly fishing tackle, knots, casting techniques and lots more, all accessible via our DreamStreams Flyfishing pages...

About our River...

The River Teifi - in most seasons the most prolific sea trout river according to Environment Agency fisheries statistics - is the venue for all of our Flyfishing Courses in Wales. More details...

Other Great Rivers and How to Fish Them...

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First-Nature.com
Bwlchgwyn, Rhydlewis, Llandysul SA44 5RE

Since 1981, our courses have been:

Sound - based on 50 years of fishing in the rivers of Wales, England, Scotland, USA, Argentina, France, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Russia and Iceland.

Practical - on-river tuition in techniques to help you to catch more fish and enjoy your fishing more.

Realistic - keepi g things simple while getting tackle, techniques and tactics right for the water conditions.

Informed - knowing where, when and how to fish and the best flies to use.

Pat, an APGAI qualified flyfishing instructor, is the author of ten books and numerous articles on fly fishing, fly tying and angling entomology. He appears often on radio and television.

Sue, who holds STANIC qualifications in trout and salmon tuition, has published several fishing articles and has appeared on radio and television and in instructive video films about fly fishing techniques.