Tactics

Winter/Spring 2010

We would recommend using:

• 6/7 weight outfit with a floating line is ideal, or a 5 weight outfit for a bit more fun when stalking or when distance is not required.
  

• A minimum of 12ft of leader material in 6-8lb breaking strain.
  

Fly Patterns:

• Small natural imitations such as damsels, blue flash damsels, bloodworms, hares ears, pheasant tails, montanas and buzzers.
  

• Try fishing the buzzer with an indicator.
  

• Stalking Bugs when the sun is shinning!
  

• Fritz lures.
  

A roaming approach is usually the most productive, either;

• Keeping on the move trying to stalk individual fish and then casting, or;
  

• Casting 'blind' spending a few minutes exploring each swim then  moving on.
  

• Dont make the mistake of fishing to deep, most fish are caught in the top few feet of water.
  

• Stalking can produce some really big fish when the water is clear.
  

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