hi

can anyone give me advice on techniques for fishing lower itchen for grayling, also good spots. It's a big bit of river and its a tough one to get your head round. I was planning on some french nymphing potentially, to get down to the fish etc..

cheers

Phill

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Goatfish aka Phill

A Sussex river fisher: Teise, Medway and occasionally the lovely Darrent.

Great challenging fly fishing with the chance of grayling in the winter time

http://www.teiseangling.co.uk/

That place gets fished alot you maybe better off finding somewhere else.

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[COLOR="Blue"]"A fish seen is a fish nearly caught"[/COLOR]

Hi Phil,
I have fished there just the once but had a good day. Where you park the car( where the hut is) I turned left(upstream ) and fished my way round to the top of the beat. This should take you around the back of the hut. I caught Grayling all around this stretch using mainly the duo method with a Ballon Caddis on the dropper and a Tungsten beadhead PTN(16) on the point.
Small flies,fine leaders long leaders and a stealthy approach should do you well regardless of how heavily it's fished.
French nymphing should do well I imagine.

Yes, LIF gets a fair amount of angling pressure, even on the fly only beats, but Starsky's advice is sound. Keep moving and find the fish.

I have caught grayling to 2-9 from LIF while bait fishing - specifically fished for not random chance - but you didn't want to know that !

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"In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." - German proverb
JH based near Southampton

Its my local - the water is desperately low this year as we've just had our first rain in 10-11wks and the Grayling are shoaled up in the deeper fast pockets (heavy nymphs needed!!). Also as C&R is more evident this year than most - and as a result there are still a huge amount of trout about. These bad boys will chase grayling and salmon off their lie and so the grayling can sometimes be tricky to find.

I watched last week as 3x 1.5lb grayling were moving up stream and got chased so many times...

The low water also makes them very spooky and if you catch a trout - which you will probably do - it will kill it for a bit and they will also make a mess of a French leader with a 3 fly cast as even though they are stockies, they fight really hard. Funny thing is to fool the grayling you need to go quite fine as they are well educated.

ahh...fishing eh.. never quite as simple as you imagine!!

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With my silken line and delicate hook,i wander in a myriad of ripples and find freedom!

Thanks fro the advice much appreciated.

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Goatfish aka Phill

A Sussex river fisher: Teise, Medway and occasionally the lovely Darrent.

Great challenging fly fishing with the chance of grayling in the winter time

http://www.teiseangling.co.uk/