Yesterday I had another first ever on a fly- in fdact two Perch from Marton Heath Pools. I've now had a rudd from Barnsfold as a first and am now looking for my first roach, carp and pike.

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Hi Flytier7

Does this mean you're switching to course fishing?

BK

i was going to ask a Q re flies for roach , could you reccommend any particular fly for roach ? i was going to try bloodworm but being new unsure, my mate has found a stretch near me that seems to holds a good head of roach .


billy

my mate catches a lot of roach on a mallard and claret seen him once have 20 + out of the derwent res, in less than 2 hrs

Sorry to the OP for the above hijak!

For roach, little red tags, Diawls, buzzers, Okey Dokeys, GRHE (with and without beads), F-Flies, Klinks mainly quite small max 16 down to as small as you can tie Tippets have to be fine, especially if they are fished for a lot, 1lb breaking strain is sometimes needed. Klink & dink can work really well if you get the 'dink' at the right depth.

thanks gareth

billy

Had a Mink on a wee black klink and a #5 set up

Felt eyes watching me , looked around to see the Mink looking at me . It slid into the water and into the pool I was fishing , as it swam across infront of me I cast to it ( Why ?? ) perfect the leader landed across its back , I did a wee side strike and hooked him a good'n , now what !!??!! It "ran" past me and down stream and the fight was on !! it really gave good value for money , I would gain some , it would take it all back again . After a while I got it back to within 20 feet of me and then it changed the rules by turning and coming at me , this left me having to tactically shift up stream ( otherwise know as shitting ones self and running away ), all the time thinking why the **** did I cast to it in the first place ??
Lucky though it made a move out of the river and into the under growth . So I moved onto the bank and laid the rod down and started to carefully hand line it trying not to snap the line , we had a wee tug'o war for a while then out of the blue all went slack , I pulled the line in to find my clink was all chewed up and the ****er had made its get away

On reflection maybe it was as well it got away as I really was never sure how I was going to deal with it had I landed it although a few options had crossed my mind .

So that was a first for me and not sure I will be trying to repeat a capture of one again !!!!!

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Cheers Danny

Co-Founder of S.S.F.D 2010

Yer quite barking, you know that Danny?
Hilarious

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I once had goose get its leg in my leader and get caught. The great heavy bird soon broke the leader and got away. It was a devil of a job to catch it, needing help over several days, before the nylon leader material could be removed from its leg.In addition to this I've hooked a bat and a sheep.Sheep fight well.

BK

I Always did-but prefer fly -fishing when I can't go coarse fishing.

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Lucky man-they can give avery nasty bite as I still have a scar on my thumb when I tried to take one out of a trap back in 1961. It didn't like it so I shot it-quite legal as I had a mink trapper's livense at the time

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The scenery in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington was worth the air fare on its own!