after returning to fishing after many years im a bit out of touch with tactics and tecniques .i never had much success with buzzers but would love to give them a good chance and catch some fish on them. i know alot of peple like to use them with a dry but some fisheries dont allow this.could you please give me some advice on the best way to fish them

thanks

Really, why would that be? I could, to some degree, understand a fishery banning the use of the 'bung' but I can see no logic in banning the duo / New Zealand method - are they objecting to the dry fly or the buzzer and would they object to either used in isolation? I doubt it and as such the 'rule' is a nonsense.

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Are you sure on this one olseadog? I mean I can't see any point in banning that setup.

seen no droppers in the rules so that would rule it out

Ah yes of course. It's not that specific setup that's banned, just the use of 2 flies. Silly me.

Hi Olseadog, buzzers can be fished at a variety of depths, if there is a slight ripple greasing all but the last few inches of leader and giving a small tug now and again works, if its flat calm just left static seems good. We tend to fish smaller still waters and buzzers at varying depths fished in a corner with a big wind blowing into it has caught well. Same story with lots of new techniques, you seem to struggle and revert back to a trusted method, but once you've caught on the new method you gain that confidence to do it again, hope this helps MASS

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OSD - where are you fishing that bans droppers?

If they ban droppers, you could get away with a bung of sorts to fish the buzzers at a set depth.


Ben

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The Latimer FFC do not allow droppers on their section of the river Chess

heathcote trout lakes are no droppers

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Hello,

Possibly a bit of thread drift here. In answer to your question olseadog I fish buzzers (well one buzzer) on a floating line. I'm fairly new to buzzers myslef. Put about a rod length of leader on with a buzzer of your choosing. Cast it out, then give few pulls to keep in contact with your line. Now watch the end of your line as the fly sinks. Chances are a fish will take the fly on the drop so be ready. If this doesnt happen then start a count down say maybe to 5 seconds. After this retrieve very Very slowly with a figure of eight. If you get a bite, you'll certainly know about it. If no bites then cast at 10 oclock, 12 oclock and 2 oclock.

If this is unsuccessful then do the same again and count to 10 as the buzzer sinks. The key is finding the depth at which the fish are feeding. Repeat the above steps but add 5 seconds to your count and so on. Buzzer fishing is certainly an acquired art, if you are getting takes then it is good fun, other than that it can be quite hard work and personally I can stick about 20 mins before boredome sets in, and like anything in fishing its certainly not a surety.

with regards to talk about teams of buzzers, washing line new Zealand etc... my advice would be keep it simple, IE one fly on the line at a time. there seems to be a school of thought that has emerged recently (probably as a result of a popular trout fishing magazine, which mentions nothing but....) that you have to fish several flies at once. You are aiming to hook a single fish at a time so why not use a bit of skill and thought and use one fly? otherwise one might as well tie every fly in the box onto a really long leader. you might as well be mackerel fishing then

Tight lines

Sedge