Hello all, my first post and asking for help already . Im a total novice and Im on holiday in Cornwall in a couple of weeks. We,re staying near to Siblyback Lake and I would appreciate any advice re. flies etc. Thanks, Jim

Hmmmmm i'll keep an eye on this one to. welcome to the forum bank vole, i'm down near siblyback in late june could do with a few pointers myself..

I think it fishes well with most of the usual suspects.......particularly black flies.

This time of year I have done well on black buzzers, montana nymphs, black pennel and BP spiders. I think there is usually a catch report on nick hart's website.

Thanks for the replies, I,ll have a look at nick harts site.
Andy, I see you,re from "sunny" Watford, Im not far from you in Rickmansworth

I used to fish Siblyback regularly with an old guy that lived just round the corner from it and fished it regularly.

I could never do better than him whatever I used and he always insisted on using a black gnat, no matter what time of year or weather. It actually taught me a big lesson that if you have confidence in your fly and fish it well, you'll catch.

As you can see from the other replies though, it's any colour fly, as long as it's black

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Thanks Mike, I'm sure I've a few of "everything" in black

What a great water. In my opinion, a Green Pea is an absolute killer.

my mate aways starts off early season on siblyback slow sinker or an itermed. line and a team of 3 black pennels slow steady 4-in pulls he swears by it must be true it cost me alot of beer to occasion a slip of the toungue.....everards tiger if memory serves on the way back from elan

Tried tying some last night but not very good with my sausage fingers so Ive got some on order. Thanks for all the tips