Hi Guy's i am relatively new to fly fishing and just now am only fishing small stillwaters for rainbow trout so my question is based on these fish and nothing else for now.

I have been fishing lures lately and the blob as well which is catching fish and i am enjoying it but it has been the winter months so probally really the only method that will truely work.

What i am intrested is catching now with dry fly as the weather heats up and the fish get closer to the surface. I have search through but can't really put my finger on anything just now, maybe looking in the wrong place.

What i would like to know is what is your fave dry fly or flys you like to fish when they are rising? How many drys would you fish? Would you fish two drys and a buzzer underneith?
Do you still try dry's when it is flat calm or is it just when a ripple is on the water.
Do you use a reterive? Fast/ slow? Figure of 8.

I know it's a lot but would really like to master this and get it from fellow anglers rather than books.

Neil

hi neil
i fish on warm days slite ripple elk hair sedge size 18-16-14 if fish are dosaling
i put abuzzer 4" of line on bend of sedge hook this is a good way and good
sport you will find that the buzzer take IS VERRY FAST.

PS/ HAVE YOU TRIED THE WASHING LINE METHORED POINT FLY BOOBY 6-7"
ABOVE BUZZER [RED] 6" ABOVE DAIL BACK.

HOPE THE WILL GIVE YOU GOOD SPORT.

TIGHT LINES
TOMMY FISH :

NEW ZEALAND DUO

Take a very boyant fly such as a ballon caddis, klinkhamar g and h sedge and attach to the hook bend a nymph such as a diawl bach cruncher ptn ect
just retrieve slowly and you should catch

I only use one dry fly at a time, long tapered leader down to 4.75lb Copolymer, plenty of degreaser on the line (every few casts), mucilin/permagrease on my loop, and floatant on my fly (gink or Marc Petitjean CDC oil).
Favourite flies are Shuttlecock Buzzers, Yellow Owl and Hares Ear F-Fly. Fish them virtually static with the odd wee tug for a bit of movement. They work best on the stillwaters i fish, but it all depends on where you do your fishing.

Cheers Diarmid.

ive used this method on the flys below the dry and found the hook hold often slipped on a middle dropper resulting in either lost fish or fish getting foul hooked by the next trailing fly. ive since reverted to normal dropper style, has this happened anyone else ?
to answer blobber i like cdc emerger type dry fly's during the day and switch to f-fly, dry quill's and small sedges in the evening oh and dry buzzers/hoppers if there about