Hi Guys

When it comes to fishing for wild brownies what precentage of your wet flies are 10s,12s ect
I find I catch more browns fish on size 10s

Was wondering if this is the norm???

I dont fish for Wild Browns all that often MFJ, however, I did find I had more success when I went down to #12, & #14 sizes for Wet Flies....

I find that stocked Browns tend to be more suicidial and will gladly take a #10....


Carl

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What is your usual cast(as in hook size) mate?

Hi Mayfly, I know when we went to North Uist a few years ago the wild brownies wanted big leggy bumbles size 10`s...............if i had size 8`s with me i`d have fished them..............a couple of the boys the first day or two fished 12`s and 14`s didnt do as well but as soon as they fished bigger flies their catch rate went through the roof

hope this helps

Gus

Although your post is about Broonies, when fishing wets for Bows, i always fish 12s and sometime drop to 14s, and find this successful.

Generally a size 10 top and middle and a 12 on the point, but I would change as the weather dictates like go up in a wave and vice versa.

I've been tying 3 years the first year It was mostly 10s and I had a bumper year on Melvin. Then the second year I was getting more proficient I moved down to 12s, almost exclusively, and had a sh*t year on the same lake, then last year I went back up to 10s even 8s and again had a bumper year.

I was just wondering if it was this lake or a concensus.

I do most of my damage on 12s junky, the 10s only come out on fresh windy days.Depends on the wave I would say.I had the same experience as Gus on Uist a few seasons back, the fish up there seemed to like big bulky flies in any sort of ripple.....

Wee Jimmy has nailed it, all depends on the wave. The old ghillie wisdom says 'Big wave, big fly, small wave , small fly'.
It can get a bit breezy on the west Sutherland hill lochs, and when it's a bit like surf casting I'll happily use a size 6, on point and bob, with a wee size 8 in the middle. Big bushy flies that make some disturbance and catch the fishes attention. In a light ripple You'd obviously have to be a bit more subtle.
On hill lochs I never go smaller than 12. Don't seem to need to.

On North country rivers it's a different story, I'll fish spidery wets down to 18.
Any smaller and I can't tie 'em.

I think we spend too much time worrying and not enough time fishing

I fish #10's, LS #12/14's down to a #20 for wild Browns. They all catch fish. I fished in a gale on a loch in Attadale with a #14 taking fish from the surface while my mate, fifty yards away, was catching them on a #6 Murrough. I was fishing from a point down and across the waves and he was pulling through them. My normal cast is #14 dry (my own pattern) on the top dropper, #12 Iron Blue Dun on the middle and a #14 HillLoch nymph (my own pattern) on the tail. I occasionally change the dry fly for a floating nymph, LS #12/14 (my own pattern) if the fish are taking sub-surface and come up a size, to a #12, on the HillLoch Nymph if there is nothing showing an interest, or vice versa if I start with the #12. The change usually results in takes.

At Moidart, after observations of the water, I put on a #10 Invicta, in place of the Iron Blue Dun, it caught fish but I can't say my catch rate increased dramatically.

To come back to your question, most of my wild browns are caught on #12 or #14's.

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Do any of you think that the size thing comes back to the question of confidence? As much as I can't get my head around it confidence makes the diddrence between a fly working or not working. Just a thought.

Andy

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