Or what sort of flies and fished how work best?

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Hi Marmalade roach eat lots of stuff. Small flys, inverterbrates, worms, maggots, bread, caddis, hemp, tares, elderberrys, cheese, and even silkweed! the list goes on.
nymphs work well for roach.
Goldbead or copperbead hares ear nymph size 20 to 12.
goldbead pheasant tail nymph size 20 to 12.
Small buzzers
Small dries
And more flies besides.
Use a fine leader and tippet .10 or .12 mm, roach have good eyesight.
Slow pulls or figure of eight retreive, or free drift.
New zealand style (small nymph under a dry fly indicator) works well.
Roach take flies in most conditions they fight well on light tackle and are well worth going for!

I Caught a 2lb Roach on the Lake of Menteith with an orange wooly bu*ger.


Jim

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Caught a load of them on the dry fly in a shallow mill pool in France last year - most of them on a didi little Klink (size 18 or 20 if I recall correctly) but tried a few other types and any sort of small parachute hackled fly seemed to work ok in late afternoon in August.

Water was very clear and I could see them in front of me positioned just to the side of the fast flows amongst the weed (in my avatar photo), placing the fly within a foot or so, to the front / side of them with really light leader and floating line was great fun!

Was viewed as a bit of an eccentric Ros Boeuf by the few locals about where we stayed but they had to appreciate the success of the method in 6 - 18 inch deep water, where theire normal methods couldn't reach.

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Have had quite a few roach and indeed rudd recently on black and peacock and partridge and orange spiders in a slow retrieve

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i had over 20 roach in a 4 hr session on the derwent resivoir (co. durham) taken on a mallerd n claret size 12 and a few on a size 14 bibio i was fishing for trout though

sweetcorn hahaha

Blimey! I know that every now and then towards the end of the year, Northumbrian Water has a roach day for coarse anglers up at Derwent, but I've never heard of anyone actually targeting them making a haul like that! What sort of size fish were they?

Red bloodworm imitations on the point fly with a black buzzer or two further up the leader.

The biggest roach I ever caught on a fly took a small Montana size 14 fished deep.

It was just short of 1lb 12oz.

Oh and by the way, use fine tackle - 3lb fluoro leaders and tippets or less.

if you ever get chance to fish a weir pool for roach ,try tying a fly to imitate silkweed ,roach are suckers for it ,if you catch one from a weir pool and it dumps dark green stuff over you i would almost gaurentee they are having a go at the silkweed growing on rocks etc ,its a great bait for them and little used these days ...

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