Adrian Freer author biography

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Adrian Freer was born, and still lives in, Leicestershire and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Leicester College of Art & Technology (now De Montfort University).

He started fishing as a boy in the 1950s, in the days when the Leicester Canal was producing its memorable catches, and caught his first trout on an artificial fly from Eyebrook Reservoir in the early 1960s.

Initially, Adrian was principally a coarse fish angler and he participated in numerous matches and also co-managed two private fishing clubs. Subsequently, however, he started to concentrate on reservoir fly fishing and for the last twenty years has fished almost exclusively for trout.

Adrian has been a long-standing member of both the Leicestershire Fly Fishing Association and the Anglers' Conservation Association (now merged into The Angling Trust) and, as well as being a dedicated fly fisherman and fly tyer, he also has a keen interest in entomology.

Adrian Freer is author of the highly acclaimed Successful Reservoir Fly Fishing Techniques: A Trout Angler's Guide to Improved Catches (Crowood Press, 2007) and Reservoir Trout Flies: An Angler's Guide to Successful Fly Patterns (Crowood Press, 2010).

He contributes articles for FlyFishing & FlyTying and Total FlyFisher magazines and also gives illustrated slideshows to fly fishing clubs.

Apart from fly fishing and fly tying, Adrian’s other interests include church activities, music, foreign travel and writing. He is married with two daughters and four grandchildren.

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RESERVOIR FLY FISHING BOOKS

Adrian Freer was born, and still lives in, Leicestershire and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Leicester College of Art & Technology (now De Montfort University).

He started fishing as a boy in the 1950s, in the days when the Leicester Canal was producing its memorable catches, and caught his first trout on an artificial fly from Eyebrook Reservoir in the early 1960s.

Initially, Adrian was principally a coarse fish angler and he participated in numerous matches and also co-managed two private fishing clubs. Subsequently, however, he started to concentrate on reservoir fly fishing and for the last twenty years has fished almost exclusively for trout.

Adrian has been a long-standing member of both the Leicestershire Fly Fishing Association and the Anglers' Conservation Association (now merged into The Angling Trust) and, as well as being a dedicated fly fisherman and fly tyer, he also has a keen interest in entomology.

Adrian Freer is author of the highly acclaimed Successful Reservoir Fly Fishing Techniques: A Trout Angler's Guide to Improved Catches (Crowood Press, 2007) and Reservoir Trout Flies: An Angler's Guide to Successful Fly Patterns (Crowood Press, 2010).

He contributes articles for FlyFishing & FlyTying and Total FlyFisher magazines and also gives illustrated slideshows to fly fishing clubs.