At the West Tamworth Public School at 9am, some of the club's members, as well as members of the community, tried their hands at the sport.

Club president Laurie Muldoon said the weekend was open to anyone, but it was mainly just the "blokes" who turned up.

While fly-fishing can be a complex style with hooks flicking back and forth Mr Muldoon said there weren't any "casualties" on Saturday, with no hooks used and just the basics taught.

"A lot of the members are good instructors and good at helping people," he said.

Mr Muldoon said the club would hold another demonstration day soon and it would be great for more kids to get involved.

He said fly-fishing was good fun and a chance to see streams not suited to other types of fishing.

Mr Muldoon said members thought the best places to go fly-fishing were up at Bendemeer, Nundle, Nowendoc and all around Walcha.

Apart from fishing, the club also stocks local rivers and streams with trout each year, with the next hatchling release expected to be in September.

The Tamworth club is part of the New England branch, which releases about 1.1 million rainbow trout back into streams each year.

Mr Muldoon said their club put in about 150,000 of those trout into local rivers.