Evening all!

Experimented with the above this season and found success to be sporadic at best with fish to slightly more than 1lb. Have come to the conclusion that I haven't fished the method correctly and would appreciate comments.

I have generally proceeded as follows:

1. Have fished the deeper, darker pots which I wouldn't usually bother with.
2. Have fished floater with fast sinking poly tip, 5' tippet and woolly ******/poodle or similar.
3. Have made a long-ish cast square, mended to allow sinking time and then stripped/twiddled the lure back across/down, much as you would old school wets.

Granted, my attempts have been mostly brief on the edge of darkness, before I've packed up and gone home.

Any ideas?

M

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hi

I asked a similar question a while back and got some good advice here. havent had the chance to fully experiment myself.

Streamers on Scottish Rivers

cheers

I started using them this year after getting some advice on a thread here. The results have been excellent. I use a similar set up to you, leaving out the polyleader for shallower water and cast square stripping back the streamer at varying speeds. I've found that runs, often no more than a foot deep, which I fished up thouraghly with a nymph and or dry catching very few fish often produce a huge number of fish if I turn around and immediately fish them back down.

Heres the thread that got me started, some good advice there
http://flyforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21417

Steve

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