This chap asked me a question via PM but his account wouldn't accept replies....so despite his name sounding a little like a wind up I thought I'd post the reply here.....
Hi Bertie. My best advice would be to read any of my recent (this winter) postings about fishing the local Leicester brooks. In them I've highlighted the methods, ideas and flies I use pretty well but even I'm learing something every trip this winter...first time I've tried to seriously catch silver fish from rivers during the winter.
One of the best tips is to locate fish...if you can spot them when the river is clear (like last week) they'll probably be in the same area when it is coloured and spoting them is impossible. If you arn't fishing where the fish are you WILL blank and they shoal much tighter in winter. In summer almost every swim holds something, that just isn't so in winter, large areas can be barren.
The other good tip is to move very often but fish your flies super slow...ideally still but just, and only just, weighted to touch the bottom, when held back in the flow. This is more vital than the actuall flies used.
...finally get out and try, that is where the real learing starts. No one else is doing it, no magazine articles with sure fire methods, no dvd how to's, everyone thinks it is too hard so they don't even try. It is just different...no harder to catch than it can be in summer. The fish are smaller and dry flies a no-hoper but I get plenty of takes and fish.
Good luck.
Dee

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thanks alot dee.. i just read the post where u fished the river sence... i fish that stream alot near great glenn where it goes inder the cannal. my dad said there used to be some moster chub in there but then they straightnd part of the river and ever since it has never produced fish like that....i also sore ur post on the welland near barrowdon and it was just the other day i tried emailing the club and asking how much it costs for a years membership but no reply yet the best place along there is in duddington its the spitting immage of a chalk stream i had 3lb trout out of that beat in the summer. on the web sight they say they have a beat in lincolnshire that has grayling hopei get a reply
thanks alot
bertie