With the season ended on my local river i have decided to head to the local lakes and having not done much rainbow trout fishing i was wondering what flies are a must have for my box over winter periods as i want to maximise my chances whilst at the lakes,

I am sure that this topic has been covered here before in some form but i am wanting to know what flies worked and how to fish them as i said before im a novice when it comes to this sort of fishing,



Thanks in advance,

Orange, Yellow or black Nomads on an Intermed' line with a slow figure of eight.


Egg Fly and an indicator

Daddys, Bloodworm, these are all doing me very well at the moment. Fry will also come into play too!


Paul,

Thanks Paul for the info,

Just cought on your from gods land,

What lake/ fishery you going to? the flys i listed are catching me between 10-15 per session at Murlock I also supply the place with some of these flys so there on site

Where are you going to fish Roeboy,i fished Eskragh lough about this time last year and orange boobies, cats whisker,and orange boobies worked really well fished slow on a di3,its a really good fishery with good sized fullt finned rainbows that fight well.

Well i will mostly be fishing Moorbrook with a few members on here one being LimavadyStockieBasher, i will aslo be fishing a lake called Cahel and a few others around the country and hopefully i can get a few trips up till the Rectory in Cookstown,

Ah well if your fishing with Mark you will be pointed in the right direction,often this time of year on small fisherys,diawl bachs and buzzers can work a treat especially if the fish are in the fishery a while.

Yep he will point me in the right way, but is there any particular buzzer patterns that work during the winter months as i have never tied nor attempted to tie a buzzer before so i would need to get on the ball and get the materials to tie them.

Epoxy buzzers,such as the traffic light buzzer,red holo,green holo,corrib buzzer.Go onto youtube,Davie Mcphail does a great sbs and you can apply this method of tying to most epoxy buzzer

Thanks again i am on Youtube now and viewing some clips of tying buzzers,