I never know what to do on those big deep holes , Nymphs 10 ' below an indicator !. Run a wooly ****** through them

Are the trout actually down there ?

Talking rivers of course

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Tommy

The advice given to me was use a big weighted caddis and fish czech nymph style. In my experience of 8 trips so far, it has worked.

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Vince

the woolly ****** has worked very well for me in the past, weighted and unweighted ,,give them a try , black with a silver rib and also a little bit of flash is a good addition too and has made the difference in some of the deep pools Ive fished on the kelvin and river cart.

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Fish a streamer, if it's shallow at the head of the pool fish down and across starting here then work you way down till you reach the tail, oh and hang on!

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Thanks Chaps

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There's a technique you can use to get the fly down deeper. Cast your streamer across at the usual 45 degrees then repeatedly flip line at the point where the leader meets the fly line so you appear to be piling the line up in a heap. It's called stack mending I believe.

This lets the fly sink deep, move the rod across towards your bank, allow a downstream belly to form and wait as the lure tracks across the current in that oh so tempting arc that trout love so much.

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Some pools look really "fishy" but never seem to produce anything In others you might find you get only smaller fish near the surface. Try a heavy, weighted nymph and cast well upstream of any likely looking 'hotspots', while standing downstream of them (or level if casting across the stream) and let the nymph sink right down. If you get no takes, try twitching the nymph or giving a long, slow lift when it reaches the spot you think should hold a fish. Often you'll get no result - but just now and then -----

StickMan

I don’t tend to fish deep pools for trout. Start of the season they could hold more fish.
But in general trout move too more oxygenated water that’s were the food is and they know it.
If the river holds trout in deep water there nearly always cannibal. So a large woolly ****** should work well.
Grayling hold in deep pools al year round forced there by trout which take the main more productive feeding lies.

Gary

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Hi Gary
I am a very new river fisherman and know next to nothing so my comment is merely from a biologists viewpoint. Do you often find larger predatory/cannibal fish lie in the deep pools? Why do you think this would be if as you say the smaller insectivorous fish are in the shallows? Surely the large predators would also want to be where the food is?

Funny things these bloody trout dont know if i will ever understand the buggers.

Dan

Hi Dan,

May I jump in here?

Big trout and grayling are survivors first and foremost. Simply put, a deep pool offers more shelter from predators than a shallow run.

Big browns are often nocturnal, and lie dormant throughout the day, only coming out to feed in the dark, or in high water. The exception to this is when specific fies are hatching early in the season - I'm thinking of grannom, LDO's and mayfies. Even when daytime feeding though, big browns ensure they take the best lies. These normally provide good cover, a quick escape route into deeper water as needed,and of course an obliging current to waft food to the fish for minimal effort.

Cheers,

Davidh