Having had a heated debate on this very forum about the use of indicators, called a NODDY for supporting their use, threatened with legal action for having a good memory, threatened with violence by a certain member who made me feel so inept that I have stopped using them!!! Who do we see fishing a bung on pages 34 and 35 of this months Trout Fisherman? None other than the current world champion Iain Barr, I wonder if he gets called a Noddy?

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Let's "Tackle Cancer" supporter.
World Record Holder for Navigating the length of Loch Ness.......on a Pedalo!!!

Mr Intronas' prodigy no less.

I fished last week, started with a floater and buzzers then went onto a sinker with a cat and managed one fish and was getting into the last few hours of my session and was finding the fishing hard so slipped on an indicator, 5ft leader and connected to that a sawyers killer nymph and was straight into fish, found it quite enjoyable and found that you do not connect with every fish ! i ended up with 5 fish on a day that was fishing very hard, i have no qualms with using it as part of my armoury, if needed! ian

IAN BARR THE CURRENT WORLD STOCKY BASHING CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WB .... quite probably but not to his face as usual

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

The River Tay.Loch Awe and Loch Leven.were 3 of the 5 venues for The world championship.fishing for wild Brown trout, Grayling.
Really.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Provided it's legal at the fishery I have no problem with others using this method but it's not for me.

I was at Farmoor the other week and came across a group of anglers all sitting on collapsible chairs and watching bungs supporting a team of buzzers in the margins. I feel that it's not much more than float fishing and as I said I prefer not to do that.

I wouldn't call anyone using or promoting bungs a Noddy but it's not fly fishing to my way of thinking but then neither is pulling blobs through shoals of stockies, each to their own!

I've been on a couple of international championships which Ian has fished and although he is undoubtedly a supreme stockie basher he's not without skill on the rivers and wild stillwaters. I was bank fishing a wild stillwater in the same group as him in a World Championship, he'd been put in as reserve just to fish that session, and 26 competitors only caught two fish in the three hour session. Ian got one of them literally in the last minute of the session and it was taken at over 25 yards on the dry fly - can't knock that!

I did finish ahead of him in a European Championship when he fished all the sessions and that quite pleased me. Before the comp I watched him practice on a fast flowing river and he was doing well on the dry fly so he's by no means a one trick pony and definitely not a Noddy - whatever that is.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

looked at his very informative dvd s jim,

his dvd with matt hayes is just a fantastic item


im sure their aint many people in the world to take the world stocky trout bashing title from him!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Promotional DVD and winning the World Flyfishing Championship have nothing in common.His was an outstanding performance in very tough venues,to take the title.and your comment is nothing but a cheap shot.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

To my mind, part of the problem is that many fisheries are single fly only. When fish are at a set level of water and taking static or slow presented flies, if you cannot use a duo or NZ set up then your options are limited. I have tried greasing up the leader to hold the fly but it is not easy to be consistent.

regards

Vince