Going for a wee weeks fluff chucking in a few weeks to fort william and beyond and will be fishing the wee wild and big lochs for the wild broonies , never really done much broonie fishing so can anyone give a bit of advice on best methods and especially whats the best flies to be trying up there ..
Hopefully get a some of the fishing done from the shaky tube !!

cheers Paul

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Paul

i found kate mclarens and black pennels worked for me after wild brownies.cheers.steve

Black flies are essential, actual pattern doesn't matter that much. Claret-bodied deer hair sedge for dry fly work, a few tinsel bodied wets and some Daddies, not forgetting muddlers for the bob and you should be OK.
The Rod and Gun shop in Fort William will give you advice and they stock a good selection of well tied flies.
As for tactics, just stroke a team of 2 or 3 wets across the surface on a floating line. If this doesn't work, switch to an intermediate line. Or cast out a dry into any likely spot.
Have fun !

Presumably using small nymphs or even buzzers would also work? I've always been a little confused why nymph/buzzer fishing seems to be limited to the South. N

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They do with the right conditions but the highland lochs tend to be fairly windy so you're better with something a bit bigger and bushier.

Floating lines, maybe intermediate. Stripped flys, traditional patterns. Clan Chief works everywhere as does Soldier Palmer, Claret Bumbles, Black Pennels I guess you get the pictures. Also if in a boat drift, if bank fishing keep moving. Brown trout are territorial unlike the Rainbows.

Best of luck,

Agree with all of the above..................
But dont forget the good old Bibio

Have fun!!!!
Rob

Brilliant , thanks for the info about flies , why is best to mostly stick to floating lines on the hill lochs ? this may seem a daft question but not to a fairly newbie when using a floating line and wet flies am i looking for the flies to sit on the surface or just under the surface

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Paul

Hill lochs vary in depth...... Obviously, and some of the "normal lochs" around fort william like the lochy and arkaig are VERY deep!!!!!!!!
never ignore the sinking line even with small wet flies.

Rob
PS. please post your findings when you get back. Ive been on a few posts on the fort william subject so im going this year too!!
Hurrayyyyy

Rob

The nymphs and buzzers do work on occasion, the problem is that wild brownies can take and reject a fly at incredible speed so the draw and pause is the preferred method for catching them and hopefully they hit the fly on the draw Sometimes they'll hit you really hard on the draw and you'll be incredulous as to how you never got a hook up! Brilliant fun. Kate Mclaren, Bibio, Soldier Palmer are three of the best IMO