About Eoin Fairgrieve

Eoin Fairgrieve

Eoin is a fully qualified casting member of the Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors and founder of Speycast

Eoin Fairgrieve is World Team Speycasting Champion and widely regarded as one of the world's leading speycasting instructors.  At the age of 24, Eoin became one of the youngest ever instructors to qualify in both the A.A.P.G.A.I trout and salmon disciplines and has been professionally teaching fly casting and fly fishing for almost twenty years.  Eoin began working as a salmon guide on the famous Makerstoun beat of the River Tweed in 1988, before starting up his teaching practice in 2001 to concentrate on casting instruction and education on the Tweed system. He specialises mainly in teaching modern speycasting techniques in a relaxed and friendly environment at his Centre of Excellence located in the Scottish Borders. 

As well as his teaching practice, Eoin is the Speycasting consultant for Loop Tackle Design of Sweden and designed the company’s range of Classic Spey rods and lines launched in 2007 and the new Opti Power Spey rods launched in 2009.  He has travelled extensively around the world in search of a wide variety of fresh and salt species and regularly hosts fly fishing trips to Argentina and Russia. He is a regular features writer for the Trout & Salmon magazine as well as other international publications and can be seen demonstrating fly casting during the year at a number major shows around the world.

In 2000, Eoin set up the Tweedstart Angling Program in the Scottish Borders to educate children about fly fishing and the positive impact it has on the environment and the local economy of the Scottish Borders.  Tweedstart now works very closley with local schools in Scotland and Eoin has taught over 5000 children all aspects of learning to fish.  

Contact Details:
Eoin Fairgrieve
Tel: 0044(0)1573 226700
Mob: 0044(0)771 5977060
E-mail: eoin@speycast.co.uk