conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 5, 2008 20:33:12 GMT
I'm sure WG won't mind be copying & pasting his final report of the season on the Spey:
Sunday, 28 September 2008 The next couple of days will be sunshine and showers, perhaps the slight lift in the river height may bring the fish back on the take but I have my doubts. If I had to fish, I would try anything, perhaps something different might illicit a response, remember the fish can probably tell who tied most of the Cascades that have passed them by now.
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OK, so let's have some thoughts on something different to try and tempt these educated fish!
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Speyducer
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Post by Speyducer on Oct 5, 2008 21:28:17 GMT
I'm sure WG won't mind be copying & pasting his final report of the season on the Spey: Sunday, 28 September 2008 The next couple of days will be sunshine and showers, perhaps the slight lift in the river height may bring the fish back on the take but I have my doubts. If I had to fish, I would try anything, perhaps something different might illicit a response, remember the fish can probably tell who tied most of the Cascades that have passed them by now. ;D OK, so let's have some thoughts on something different to try and tempt these educated fish! making the usual assumptions of fly-only..... and, the usual suspects have been trawled endlessly through the water (cascades, Ally's, black flees, willie gunns, etc).... I would firstly try with a stripped Sunray shadow (or Collie Dog, or one of the Scandinavian Monkey flies), varying the presentation from swing across & down, to slow, medium & fast stripping to see if a response could be elicited. A hitched fly could be tried, the pattern probably less important than the wake created. Even a true 'dry' presentation of a bomber or Wulff over known lies. In any of these elicits a response, without any hook up, hen a couple more casts only, then change fly over the same area. Failing that, after another run through with the above usual suspects, retiral for another re-think over a dram in the hut!  Mike |
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 5, 2008 21:54:46 GMT
Some good options there Mike, particularly the wee dram in the hut while re-thinking options.  Fishing deeper, perhaps with a biggish tube fly, to try and annoy resident fish into taking, has brought me occasional success. Red flies certainly seem to attract aggressive cock fish. |
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Speyducer
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Post by Speyducer on Oct 5, 2008 22:04:00 GMT
Down deep & with a heavier fly - the 'Angry Gunn' same as a Willie Gunn, but with red replacing most of the yellow on a copper tube ( I think someone called this a 'Drowned Mouse' - but rather surprisingly in has none of the colours, shape or swimming characteristics of any mouse I have ever seen  ), or the brass bottle tube Red & Black TD style seems to have a chance in stirring up the larger warhorses! Mike |
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Post by sinkingtip on Oct 5, 2008 22:32:39 GMT
A quickly retrieved upstream shrimp with two droppers, one with an Irish Lane Minnow, the other with a couple of brandlings attached.
Failing this - a pink /white / red tube flee - brighter the better - shiny body - end of.
STip
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tweedsider
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 6, 2008 14:51:02 GMT
Change someting, a smaller or bigger fly, most likely the former, a sinking leader in place of a floater. Throw a brick at the blasted thing.
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 6, 2008 18:59:13 GMT
Change someting, a smaller or bigger fly, most likely the former, a sinking leader in place of a floater. Throw dynamite at the blasted thing. tweedsider ;D An old tactic in some rivers running close to the slate quarries of Snowdonia. |
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), or the brass bottle tube Red & Black TD style seems to have a chance in stirring up the larger warhorses!
