Alrite troops, im just new to fly fishig
i have been succesful with lures,nymphs and wet flies so far for rainbows and browns.
i want to learn the art of buzzer fishing on stillwaters for brown trout. i have fished various waters with buzzers in central scotland without much success. any hints and tips would be much appreciated.
thanks

Hi YC, welcome to the forum. How have you been approaching the buzzer fishing? What style of buzzer and colours have you been using?

One of the reasons that things may have been a bit...err...slow on the buzzer front is that it's not really what you'd call peak buzzer time at the moment. The main even is pretty much March to May, then another spell in September/Oct. The back end hatches tend not to match the spring hatches for either quantity or variety. However, there will be one or two buzzers hatch on almost every water in the UK, on every day of the year. This means that the buzzer, in one stage of the life-cycle or another is pretty much always an option for hungry trout. Because of this '365' availablility, the classic profile of the buzzer nymph, or pupa, is indelibly stamped into the trout's memory bank, so even on days when there's not a buzzer to be seen, trout will be helpless to resist, and instinctively accept a nicely presented artificial.
For me though, the spring activity is where it's at, and when it's done my buzzer box stays at home until September, and even then, doesn't always see the light of day until the following spring.

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Hi scratch.
Cheers for the quick reply mate. I have only been fishing a single bloodworm on my local resevoir in bridge of allan in bonnie scotland.
Using an airflow ridge line, with a 9 foot leader ,as my casting distance gets me into water depth of about 10 foot.i have been gettin loads of takes but not quite hooking into them. What do you advise, a static approach or a slow figure of 8 on the retrieve?
Be grateful for any advice mate

There are somedays in mid winter when the sun warms up around midday that can be very good sport, might not last for long but not to be dismissed. I recall last year a guy moaning he'd blanked. I fished 2 buzzers,landed 5 in an hour.

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Bloodworms may work but again I think you've missed the best time to use them.

I think they're an early season thing, but I may be wrong

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alot of the trick to buzzer is in the retrieve as you say! the wind can often put as much action into your retrieve as you want!just roll cast to start off!let thecast come round in the breeze lterally just keep in touch! slow figure of eight"if you can see it,it's too fast"
when the fly reaches the margins very slowly lift the rod then hang it! the fish arelikely to be following the fly or aslikely to be 2.5 metres out as 25metres,fish across the wind!
the casr further,search the water methodically

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Try a bibio dry fly for your browns................... your casting maybe limited but you'll find much of the brownies hugging the banks in and around the 10ft of water depth your reaching.......... pull the bibio back as a wet fly before you re-cast.

It has to be said that on the still waters that I fish buzzers are not the best way to tackle the brownies. Rainbows yes. If I want to target the brownies I go for something a bit larger and stillwater's bibio trick is right up my street. Also damsel nymphs and similar do the trick from time to time................birdsnest

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This was on a sparkly olive superglue buzzer yesterday. I planted it into a group of three or four fish then BAM! Out of nowehere, 8lb of fighting Brownie on the drop.

I'm not exactly experienced, but I do know that I like to target and then be able to see the buzzer drop. When I retrieve it is on a slow, jerky, figure of eight, occasionally giving a sharp tug to refloat and maybe benefit from a 'second drop'.

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