Posts Tagged ‘Dry Fly’
January 23rd, 2010 | 
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If fish are feeding on very small flies with my eyesight as it is I find almost impossible to see a tiny fly so frequently I tie on a big, bushy fly (Wulff or Klinkhammer typically), and then have the smaller fly on a 24- to 30-inch dropper. The big fly serves as a locater and a strike indicator! As a fish hits the tiny fly as expected the big old Wulff will disappear as well. I have also had the wulff hit occasionally also but the greedy trout. Once you know the exact pattern you can use two of the same pattern, increasing the odds of getting a fish, simply watch the line and rough area the flies are floating in, it will usually be your flies that get hit once you know the pattern. ps you can test twice as many patterns this way to find what is being hit when trying out a water to find out what they are taking. It also allows you to vary sizes to see which size of a fly i.e. an Olive is being taken!
Dry Fly & Emerger Rig Which there is a hatch on trout will focus on as specific stage of the hatch cycle say the dry. So when uncertain if you should be casting a dun or an emerger, fish both! That way you can see which one works. When trout are preoccupied eating duns, greedy trout can’t pass up a crippled-looking emerger. It is still food and easy pickings for them.
Attractor Dry Fly and Nymph Rig When you have no idea what the fish are eating and you want to cover a lot of water, I use this rig. Use an large attractor-pattern dry fly (I love a large Klinkhammer in the main however have had brilliant sucess at Marran Lakes using a Muddler) with a real attractor nymph – such as a BH GRHE on a dropper You can present each trout with two options flies. The dry fly acts as a strike-indicator for the nymph, and the this system it allows you to fish the nymph at a very specific depth. You can then vary the depth of the nymph. At Marran lakes I kept getting hit nicely with a combination of Klinkhammer / Muddler and nymphs.
River Warning With any of these double rigs the key is to check that the flies move with the current in a flowing river or stream. The minute that the rigs start moving out of sequence with the river and pulling then either mend the cast or re-cast altogether. Once the rig is moving unnaturally faster than the flow of the river it is almost a certainty that you will not catch a fish!
The Allan Water is controlled by the Allan Water Angling Improvement Association, you can buy permits by the day from the Dunblane post office or join the waiting list for the association. The waiting list to join is a about a year but this venue is members only on a saturday.
We fished the upper pools on beat 1. The pools are up near braco just before the hotel. We only used Fly Fishing as our method although you can spin for Salmon and Trout
Salmon Fishing
Equipment – Single Handed AirFlow, SLS Fly Rod.
Location
There is no need for wading at this location as the river is not a large river. You can fish from the Far bank with ease. However this water really needs to have a lot of rain before it fishes well. The banks are clean and well maintained and the water quality is excellent
Flies – Stoat Tail and Pot Belly Pig.
We fished for a number of hours, without much luck and decided to change fly to a pot belly pig, within half an hour I had managed to land a 6lb Grilse. It took me over half and hour to land the fish. (We returned the fish safely to the river) I can see now why the Pot Belly Pig is such a popular fly.
Trout Fishing
Equipment – 6/7 9ft 6 Trout Fly Rod with Floating Line
Flies – Dry Fly and Wet Flies (the day we fished just about anything was catching)
The Fishing
We found this river to teaming with lots of small brown trout about 6inch long which must be viewed as an encouraging site, in fact we managed to catch around 20 (all of which were safely returned to the water)
We found We had Great Success with Wet Flies and Small Size 16 Dry Flies. We generally had the dry fly on the top dropper and the wet on the point.
Overall
A nice clean venue, ideal for in-experienced Fly Fishing, Easy Access and Depending on the weather a good chance of a salmon. This is a great place to learn how to fish on a river.
On the things to note about this venue is the fact that they actually stock the river with brown trout to supplement the natural fish stocks. I did notice large amounts of small brown trout about 1 – 2 inches in size, which is a real positive as it means the the natural fish are spawning and this can only result in making the venue and even better trout fishing mark.
