Im fishing a stillwater on friday night for the fist time and im needing a bit of advice what flies to use?

Any help would be great
Thanks

I would have some sedges/ muddlers in my box for on the top and some silver/gold bodied flies like a crow and silver, mapie and silver, butcher, Alexandria, dunkelds and invicta.

Which stillwater are you fishing?

Munro

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I would agree with reidy almost 100% and would add a 10,12 greenwells glory to the list. best of luck

thanks m8 im fishing Witton Castle Lakes in Co. Durham

I would be more concerned how you are going to approach night fishing.
It is really not for the faint hearted.
Be aware of your surrounding, if possible walk the bank in daylight where you intend to fish & note any problems encountered & where & what they are.
Take a torch, preferably with a red filter & a couple of spare batteries, better still a spare torch. You do not need a searchlight, a small one will do. Maglites are a good choice, but remember to keep light down & away from water. It will take around 3/4 of an hour to return your night sight if you get a flash from the torch. Fish the margins first. Trout will approach quite close in if not disturbed, so don't crash about shouting to your mates.
My adage for night fishing is
Study to be quiet & be quiet to study.
If it is a mild night a greased up Sedge will do, pattern is immaterial but size shape & silhouette are. A nice combo is a dry sedge on dropper & a wet such as an Invicta about three feet behind. Do not react to "A Rise" but wait till fish is felt then lift into it.
Not comprehensive but a few pointers that work well for me.
Tight Lines

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Good advice, a recy in day light will be very valuable especially is wading.
One night seatrout fishing I fished a small run that i have had fish out of in the past. When it became daylight i realised that it was only inches deep and in the last high water it had been filled in.
Doh!

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I would recommend a headtorch, a good one is the Gamma made by Alpkit. It has a choice of a super bright white LED or a smaller white, green or red LED that is pretty bright without making you look like a lighthouse.

I use one for night shooting, they are £12.50 posted IIRC.

I may have try night fishing, no one can see how bad my casting is in the dark!

Night fishing is great but very challenging , The water I fish is very overgrown and I go out in daylight and mark positions on the bank that have a possible backcast and even mark entrance points to pools. What appears obvious in the day will often be impossible to locate at night...

Take ready prepared leaders and keep things as simple as possible.

Essentials are headtorch and mobile phone and for where I fish a large dog...

Most of my fishing used to be for wild brownies on a particular shallow loch. I caught far more than anyone else in the syndicate but would be setting up as they were leaving...I'd often fishing through until about 1am.

Sedgehogs and G&H are great night flies. I would start with smaller sedge patterns and late on would be fishing with something that looked like the head of a bog brush!

You definitely catch larger fish...most night sessions I would be hitting brownies around 2lb and occasionally up to 4lb. During daylight it was difficult to catch much over 1/2 lb.

Best fishing is by moonlight when you can see the ripples of chasing fish.

Great way to encounter wildlife...one night on the Annan my fishing partner had a family of young otters literally swimming around his legs.