On a recent trip I was plagued with small course fish while trying to fish for rising trout.
Despite the fact that earlier in the day it hadn't been a problem.
It was incredibly frustrating as even if they weren't actually swallowing the fly (and quite often they were) they were quite quickly drowning it.

I tried everything, larger flies, moving round the lake etc etc but in the end I had to give up and fish under the surface despite knowing that trout were rising.

So have any of you more experienced guys got any good tips for dealing with this?
Or are there just times when you have to cut your losses and change tactic?

Cheers

Dan

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In a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate,
My fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion.

Once had a minnow take an 18s black gnat I was using, it did spit it out and immediately a trout took it sub surface, that I caught.

Sometimes you just have to grin and bare it.

Gink up a Muddler and let the little sods have a chew on that... Otherwise what Wobblyface said, just bare with it not much you can do i'm afraid..

Jerry

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When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

If you fished our badly understocked reservoir you'd be happy to catch a few rudd on dries.

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