The Complete Fisher Forum

[drybuzzer]

I recently bought a job lot of flies off Ebay and to be honest the quality is not what it should be.
I suppose its my own fault for trying to get something on the cheap, so lesson learnt, time to start stocking up on quality.
I am fairly new to fishing ( less than a year) so am still learning the basics so its just reservoir fishing for me at the moment.
At the moment I mainly try to use dry flies with say a buzzer on the drop but Im also starting to use flies just under the surface with a slow retrieve.
Now I appreciate that you need different flies for different times of year, reservoirs, conditions etc and I know this is a very open ended question but here goes.
What type of fly is your must have for each season and what size do you tend to use.

[Whistlekiller]

For me it boils down to which reservoir I'm fishing. For example, when I fish Toft Newton I often use buzzers and Apps bloodworms quite successfully whereas on Ladybower, I find that a size 8 red arsed black Snatcher (originally donated to me by BlankDay) and something we call an ILB (Iain's Ladybower Buzzer, which is actually a heavy gold headed orange and green lure originated by MontanaJoe) is more to my liking. On Thornton reservoir I use blobs and damsels of varying descriptions. I occasionally get the dries out if I think they stand a chance but for me, that's not often. Just a confidence thing at the end of the day, but no hard and fast rules. I strongly suspect depth and retrieve have a lot more to do with it than what type of fly it is but that doesn't stop me from becoming fixated on one or two types (as above) for periods of time.

Of course these preferences have changed over the years and who's to say next time out I may stumble across my future "go to" fly, one which I normally wouldn't give a second glance to.


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[Grey Hackle]

Was fishing at Thornton earlier this year and enjoyed success with a white booby. They couldn't get enough of it.


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To be able to wing correctly a small dry fly is the height of attainment in trout fly dressing and is the most difficult part of the art... Roger Woolley