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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.

Spring is here at last...
And among other great deals in our bookshop there are special offers on sets of our Wildflower Guides. >Details...

First Nature Books and CD-ROM Guides

A recent addition to 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...

Version 2 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 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. And 2008 is the 50th anniversary - yes, it really has been running that long.

The 2008 CLA Game Fair will be held at Blenheim Pallace, in Oxfordshire, on 25th, 26th and 27th July. We will be there, providing fly casting and flyfishing demonstrations each day. Check the daily Grandstand Events programme in the official show guidebook for timings, and we will look forward to meeting you after our demontration. >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 wensite. 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.

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

Since 1981, our tuition has been:

Sound - based on 50 years of fishing in the Wales, England, Scotland, USA, 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 - 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.