Me and my dad are members of the richmond angling club. We often go and fish at he great langton stretch of further up.Well me and my dad went out when the river was flooded on my dads first cast he caught his very firs grayling on a dry.After that it started to rain so he stoped now when i went out to have a go i missed about 20 bites in 2 hours not being funny but this the truth.OK then to make matters worse he oes back in for his last few casts and caught one but unfortunately for him it got off.And just for the record i missed all the fish on a dry so i have made this thread to ask for any advice on how to master the art of using a dry fly


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That's about normal for your first go at grayling on dry fly, the same thing happened to me the first time I tried. You don't get as long to strike as when fishing for brown trout. You need to minimize slack line and be expecting the fish to take your fly. Grayling are very fast when taking and rejecting a fly but you will find your timing adapts to them and you start to hook them more and more frequently.

The good thing is you often get multiple chances with grayling where a brown trout would be put down and not rise again.

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Small grayling take like lightning. Because of the structure of their mouths, they can be quite tricky to hook and when hooked they will sometimes race downstream, getting rid of barbless hooks if there is slack line. The larger fish are easier to hook, provided you do not strike too quickly. Where you see a gentle wide ring forming, watch out. These can be really nice fish. Also, it helps if you use lower profile flies, like parachutes, klinkhammers and emergers that fish in the water film. Practise shorter casts and avoiding slack line. It's amazing how close you can get to grayling. Sometimes you see them swimming around your feet.
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Ok thanks i will take all this in to account when i finally catch i will let you know

Hi every one i have finaly caught a grayling i will put the pic on soon