Yesterday i went to an extremely small trout fishery, maybe 75yards long 30 yards wide.
I caught 1 fish and my dad caught 4, when we caught them, you could feel the vast amounts of Snail Shells in the bellys of the fish.
How would i go around trying to replicate snails? One guy suggested fishing an ace of spades down on the bottom very slowly. Would that be ideal or are there other effective imitations i could try?

Cheers

Sounds a nice little place,

CRUNCHERS!!! & Floating & Epoxy Snails coming a close second

As far as I'm concerned, and been advised, and experienced, Crunchers take some beating for snail feeding troots!

Others will have there favourites towards this situation.


GC

ddave07,

Another excellent pattern would be a Black & Peacock spider with a fat body - if you tie yourself, then include some lead wraps on the body before wrapping the peacock herl to get the pattern down.

By the way - where did you fish? - I grew up in St. Albans and can only remember Riverside Road ...
Kind regards

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I fished Redbournbury, its probably half the size of Riverside (Riverside being my primary trouting grounds )

Ahh!

I moved up to Yorkshire 5 years back and I think that Redbournbury was just opening then ...

Used to love Riverside Road - great setting and lots of little bays to fish ...

If you email me your address, I'll send you some Black & Peacock Spiders to try.

info@spidersplus.co.uk

Kind regards

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i have some black and brown deer hair snail patterns, fished on a Hi-D with a very short leader like a booby, i found this a great method when they are on the snails..

Weighted Montana nymph perhaps.

I often take fish full of snails from my local and "BIG" snails 3/4" pointy ones, normally these guys fall to my size 10 Gold head hares ear (grub hook) im pretty sure they take them for shrimp / hog lice whilst grubbing about on the bottom for the snails.

Long leader 15'-18' floating line very,very,very slow fig 8 retrieve works very well all year but more so through the winter.

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thanks all for the advice, will give these a go next time i'm down there

If they were taking the snails off the bottom, then a small black booby would work on a sinking line.

Or you could use a weighted hares ear on a floater, picked out so it's nice & scruffy, just left to swing round....or even a couple of them under the bung !

If it was summer and the snails were migrating (when they float up to the surface and let the wind & waves carry them) then a hares ear (unweighted)fished on the washing line mixed with crunchers and diawls will work...cormorant booby on the point..

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