Fluff chuckers delight

[kerrwaf]

Anyone else do the odd bit of flyfishing? Heres one from a recent session Small but good sport

[ChrisKnapper]

Where dyu catch that from mate??

Have done it a bit before but not in recent years...

Chris

[kerrwaf]

A place called westlow mere near marton, about 10 minutes away from redesmere. The are some good trout in there. Water is crystal clear and theres some whacking great tench in there. Shame they don't allow course fishing as if it was stocked with carp it would have massive potential with all the natural food in there.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wot a horridd looking carp !

[Blue]

Originally Posted by kerrwaf

Anyone else do the odd bit of flyfishing?

I used to do loads with my dad a few years ago in and around the Bridgenorth area of the midlands. Loved it, especially when the old close season used to kick in. It was a way of still fishing from March till June, then it was back to carping..

The clear water trout pools are the best, you can see and stalk the trout with a little dry fly or buzzer, fantastic sport. My pb trout to date is 16lb, a flippin' monster it was from a place called Underton in Bridgenorth. That was stalked from a deep, margin on a tiny little fly....great days..

Must give my dad a ring I think and pop out sometime.....

[Stig]

Was a fluff chucker before i ever drowned a maggot and even longer before i ever hair rigged a boilie.Used to fish Erwood reservoir near Buxton with my dad when i was a junior.Also have fished a most of the other places like Rutland,Gaftham.Chew etc and countless lochs and salmon rivers in Scotland .Still keep my hand a few times a year find it a bit tiring on the old shoulders nowadays much easier casting out and sitting behind buzzers then whipping the water into a froth ...lol

[Stig]

Originally Posted by Phil highlander

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wot a horridd looking carp !

Its one of them spotty Salmo carp aint it ......lol

[Nige]

Been Westlow before not a bad place, nice fish there Will. Seen the Tench in that place though!? I got side-tracked from the trout fishing, trying to tempt a tench on the fly

[kerrwaf]

Originally Posted by Nige

Been Westlow before not a bad place, nice fish there Will. Seen the Tench in that place though!? I got side-tracked from the trout fishing, trying to tempt a tench on the fly

Actually i did manage to do that once. They were feeding up in the shallows and i manged to tempt a 7lber into taking my white cats whisker.

[davidg]

Fished all the local waters Westlow, Marton, Dane Bridge and Tittesworth and enjoyed every minute. Fly Fishing was my thing between general coarse and now carp. All part of the apprentiship that goes to make an angler (rather than a carp fisher) something the instant carpers miss out on (their loss not mine). Try fishing for carp on the fly rod - it will give you the hardest fight you've ever experienced - I kidd you not

[silverbirch]

Taken them on 4 weight and 9 weight rods to double figures...great fun...the real lesson is just what you can subdue and how quickly on such apparantley light rods...the heavy shooting head lines really baffle them .......feels nothing like the usual contact they experience during a fight...

Originally Posted by davidg

Fished all the local waters Westlow, Marton, Dane Bridge and Tittesworth and enjoyed every minute. Fly Fishing was my thing between general coarse and now carp. All part of the apprentiship that goes to make an angler (rather than a carp fisher) something the instant carpers miss out on (their loss not mine). Try fishing for carp on the fly rod - it will give you the hardest fight you've ever experienced - I kidd you not

already done it m8 went up to turners n wangled a few out great sport highly recomemded we got some funny looks though lol

[northernbadger]

Kerrwaf, I'v done a fair bit on Westlow myself, its certainly not easy this time of year especially from the bank so nice result. Regards to those tench, they're almost as easy as the small trout mate. They can't resist a buzzer with a bit of red i'v found, preferably all red.Best place for them in summer is down the shallows but if they're not there....then they're round the corner from the Mooring place (where that willow tree is). When you see one or two churning up the silt just present a still buzzer, give it the odd subtle twitch and they absolutely hammer it. Bearing in mind the tench look alot bigger than they are unfortunately, though managed one around 6lbs on a 5 weight rod a few seasons back,

Well worth a go, nothing quite like it on fly gear!