I have made a leap from fishing resevoirs to Rivers....well one outing any way! Having fished firstly on still waters some 10 years ago and res for the past 5 years to me fly fishing was born on the river. i decided to give this a go on my local Swansea Tawe river using a wf5 line and rod, floating line and tungstun ptn size 12 last week and low and be hold a caught a cracking brown of what looked like 1 1/2 pound, but lost it as i my landing net was half way up the bank. The method was casting directly up river and allowing the fly to come 180 around (just keeping up with the current, no retrieve) and bang! Well i put this down to more luck than judgement because i have no idea how to fish a river or how to nymph fish a river be it a pool or flowing water? Can anyone help please. Thank you and be gentle.

P.S. Fishing llandegfedd res tom hopefully some dries?

Just keep doing what you are doing

keep the end of the line well greased up and whilst it is upstream watch it like a hawk, if it does anything odd, pauses, stabs or dips then lift, often it is the bottom but a good deal of the time it will be a take.have a read up about mending, throwing a loop of line upstream (kinda like kids skipping) to insure that the nymphs drift is drag free.

some will say you shouldnt fish the nymph downstream, fishing is fishing and if you are enjoying it then ignore them... so long as you are compliant with the rules of the fishery then who cares

when you move onto dries the same principal applies, cast upstream , mend the line to make sure the dry drifts drag free...

Hope that helps

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