The Arundell Arms Hotel has been one of England’s premier fishing hotels for more than 75 years and has 20 miles of its own water on the Tamar and six of its tributaries. These are spate rivers that rise on the moors and come down to our valleys through woods and farmland, becoming larger, deepening, providing an infinite variety of water, long slow pools, gravelly runs and stickles, fast shallows and open glides.
Here you are alone all day, fishing a mile of river for wild brown trout - shy fish that rise savagely to a fly. In the late spring, the first salmon arrive and by mid- summer, shoals of sea trout bring out the night fishers.
We teach fishing. We run courses for beginners. We sell tackle, give advice and provide maps of our fishing. It is all this and more which makes the Arundell Arms a real fisherman’s hotel.
We have two full-time instructors, David Pilkington and Tim Smith. They hold the prestigious Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors (AAPGAI) qualifications in both single and double-handed disciplines.
Over the past 60 years thousands of men and women, boys and girls have learned to fish at The Arundell Arms. It is a long tradition of the hotel and one that gives us particular pleasure.
Each year we run a number of beginners’ fly-fishing courses on river and still water, and also give individual and group tuition from beginner to advanced level.
In addition, we specialise in modern Spey casting techniques, sea trout night fishing and saltwater fly fishing.
Lessons are tailored to suit your needs and requirements and will take place on one of our seven rivers, the lake or on the coast. All tackle can be provided at no extra cost.
