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• Recent Publications

  • Allan Sefton writes for Trout and Salmon the UK’s premier game angling monthly magazine each year.www.greatmagazines.co.uk

  • He is also working on a book aimed at beginners to trout fly fishing. This new book addresses how difficult it is for the aspiring fly fisher to enter the sport which is, frankly, not welcoming to newcomers. This book will soon be published by Constable and Robinson in their 'Right Way' series. The first chapter of the new book is also reproduced below.

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Allan Sefton lives in Hemingford Abbots, a pretty Cambridgeshire village, which sits on the banks of the Great Ouse. All around there is excellent coarse fishing. Grafham Water, one of the best trout lakes in Europe, is five miles away.

 

Allan was educated at the University of North Wales, Bangor in the 1960’s. He became a biologist and was awarded a Ph.D. for research in freshwater ecology.

 

His time in N. Wales was not wasted.  It was a productive period in his parallel career as an angler! He caught his first salmon from the River Ogwen, enjoyed great trout fishing (of both the brown and sea varieties!) and landed some big bass from the Menai Straits and the beaches of Anglesey.

 

Later, a Senior Civil Service career, mostly with the Health and Safety Executive, took him around the UK, including long spells in Scotland. He was, in turn, Head of the Offshore Safety Division, the Director for Scotland (a post created in the wake of devolution) and finally HM Chief Inspector of Railways.

 

Despite the demands of work, but sometimes with the help of the international travel required, Allan has caught salmon to over 20lbs in Scotland, trout to 8lbs in the Midlands reservoirs, big pike, barbel and other coarse fish from the Great Ouse valley and even the ‘Grand Slam’ of a bonefish, a permit and a tarpon in one day from the coral flats of Los Roques in Venezuela.

 

In 2006 he retired from the board of HSE and satisfied a life long ambition by spending the next 12 months obtaining a Level 2 Qualification in Coaching Angling. This is the highest level qualification currently available from the Sports Council for coaching angling.

 

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He is a member of the Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA)

 

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Allan works voluntarily as a coach to members of the England Youth Fly-fishing Asociation (EYFA) which manages the successful England under-18 international team. He also provides free coaching to members of his fishing club, the East Midlands Trout Fishing Association (EMTFA) www.emtfa.co.uk. Allan coaches beginners and guides fly fishers on the famous Anglian Water reservoirs

www.anglianwater.co.uk and at nearby smaller waters such as Elinor Trout Fishery. www.elinortf.co.uk