Last season fishing some of my local reservoirs i often noticed fish feeding just below the surface with the fins and tail showing above the surface. What are they feeding on? My guess was buzzers but whats the best way to fish them so high in the water?

thanks in advance

Yep,
Feeding on the rising buzzers, try the washing line, G and H on the POINT, with two suspended buzzers made of grey goose herl with hackle fibre wings and peacock hearl thorax on the droppers and a 20ft leader space the drops 5 to 6 feet apart and I would use copolymer or normal mono. I would stay clear of the flouro. in this situation.
Or the new zeland method, Dry sedge with 6 foot mono tied to the bend of the hook and a trailing buzzer. And grease the end of your dry fly line to stop it being dragged under.
Fish in these situation love flies on the drop, the methods above i use with great results even on the wild Irish loughs.
RK

why would you not use flouro. i thought that seeing as it's less viewable that that would be a better option. sorry if i'm asking a really dumb question

burhan

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On one of my few stillwater visits i had a session just like this ... i found a black CDC shuttlecock buzzer was killing

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flouro pulls the flies down too much,better off with co-poly

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an interesting mix of apathy and panic

Clive M

As said above, the flourocarbon will drag the flies and fly line down, Have a go with drennan or copolymer next time you will have a better catch rate,
I would only use the flouro. for wet fly lough style and the buzzer zone fishing.
RK

Good shout rk and I'd start off with an unsinkable shipman's on the point.........ogling the orange one whilst tying the black one on the washing line

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an interesting mix of apathy and panic

Clive M

With regards to the unsinkable shipmans do yuo just gink it up to high heaven? I have been playing at the vice trying to produce a shipmans like fly around a foam body to use for this very purpose but they always look so fat i have no faith in using them (definitely one for the less is more brigade with my flies).

Will have another crack tonight with some thin foam posts i recently purchased and will post some piccys.

wellycod, tie down the foam along the hookshank, its the tags at either end that give the floatability, allows the fly to sit in the film rather than on it.

Well i tried and failed but here are my attempts. If anyone has any advice i would be grateful to hear it as i think this pattern has a lot of uses and i would love to master it..





and the only one i am kinda happyish with, needs to be much neated though