It's only a few hours away, but I thought I'd idle away a couple of hours on the forums, before I go over to Arnfield for the 1st time...
Does anybody have any tips or info they could share?

I've only just re-taken up fluff chucking and this will be my 3rd outing. I fished Walkerwood Tuesday evening just gone and didn't blank with a little bluey, and I fished Walkerwood last night again and took 3 rainbows best of 3 and half/4lb. But missed 5 others.

I'm tempted to try a boat if there's one available but I'm a little daunted, I've never fished from a boat in my life. I don't own a life jacket anyway.

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Hi woz, Ive been fishing Arnfield regularly this year and it's a fabulous place. If I were you I would go for a boat, they are extremely easy to handle and Steve or Alan will show you the ropes.

I spoke to Steve the other day and he's of the opinion the fish are down slightly. In this case a method I find extremely successful is a two lure setup on an intermediate or D5.

The water at Arnfield is quite heavily peat stained. With this in mind I found the ideal set up when the fish are down is to use a white lure on the dropper and a darker lure on the point. I had over 20 fish on my last visit with this setup. The flies I was using were a hot-head apptitiser on the dropper and a glod-head damsel on the point, fished about 10/12 foot down with a slow figure eight. You'll find the blue's hitting the white fly and the rainbows hitting the damsel.

If the fish are on the surface, a pair of Klinkhammers will do some damage.

You can read a bit more about my trips there here.


Hope you have a good evening woz. Be sure to let Steve know I'll see him tomorrow. Thanks.

Thanks Stuart, much appreciated. If all goes well this evening I may return tomorrow for the full day...

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Not a bad evening... Took 3 rainbows all between 2lb/3lb and a little perch lol, but missed over a dozen fish. All were after a tiny black buzzer or small black emerger.

Good nights fishing, I will definitely going back...

I might go for the day tomorrow, not yet decided.

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well done mate! sounds like you had fun

Nice one woz.