Trout fishing newbie

[KittleRox 2,147]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

[mayfly 0]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

Edited July 11, 2011 by mayfly

[KittleRox 2,147]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

Thanks mate, camping next to a river, I was there last week and a few fish were rising, shallow and deep pools, which fly for surface feeding

[mayfly 0]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

Thanks mate, camping next to a river, I was there last week and a few fish were rising, shallow and deep pools, which fly for surface feeding

you need to look and see what fly activity there is, probably sedge activity, i would use a brown caddis dry or olive, something like a Greenwells Glory maybe or a cdc f FLY, or an Olive Dun. Basically anything will float on the surface. I would go to your the local fly shop and get him to give you a handful off dries and a few nymphs, local knowledge is what you need

Edited July 11, 2011 by mayfly

[theferreter 311]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

thats some good advice mate and kittlerox the best of luck

[barry123 112]

buzzers ,olives ,sedge ,midge,and dont forget nymphs .all work well on rivers

[KittleRox 2,147]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

Thanks mate, camping next to a river, I was there last week and a few fish were rising, shallow and deep pools, which fly for surface feeding

you need to look and see what fly activity there is, probably sedge activity, i would use a brown caddis dry or olive, something like a Greenwells Glory maybe or a cdc f FLY, or an Olive Dun. Basically anything will float on the surface. I would go to your the local fly shop and get him to give you a handful off dries and a few nymphs, local knowledge is what you need

Cheers for that mate, got myself a couple each of Olive Dun, b*****d Midge, Gold head hares ear and half a dozen others which the guy recommended, thanks again

[KittleRox 2,147]

I,m going camping for a couple of days and a good friend has gave me a fly rod and reel with some floating line, I have read a little on river fishing but not much, as far as experience I have had a shot at fly fishing for about half an hour a few years back but thats about it, my question is which flys should I be using to catch brown trout at this time of year ? thanks

If your fishing rivers, and there are some feeding fish on the surface, look for small rises, use a dry fly, or an semi emerger, like a Klinkhammer etc, or use some nymphs, something like a gold head hares ear or pheasant tail nymph, but these would be for fish that are sub surface feeding, feeding below the surface. Every river would have to be observed to see what fly activity there is and where the fish are feeding, sub or surface. If your fishing put and takes, use lures, cats whisker, orange yellow black and green mix coloured lures usually take stockies. Its a big learning curve, good luck and enjoy if anything.

thats some good advice mate and kittlerox the best of luck

Cheers, heading off this aft for a couple of days by the river, cannae wait

[KittleRox 2,147]

buzzers ,olives ,sedge ,midge,and dont forget nymphs .all work well on rivers

[Ideation 8,216]

Caught many fish on hares ears mate. When i can't figure out what they are feeding on, or there is not much about fly wise, it's a good bet.

[KittleRox 2,147]

Back a day early, couldn,t stand the heat lol, nowt in the bag but still enjoyable, beautiful scenery and started to get the hang of using the fly rod/casting, when I first tried it I was thinking I,m gonnae be fxckin useless at this style of fishing but by the end of the day I was managing a wee bit distance without tying myself in knots lots of wee fish kicking about, salmon par I was told but not sure

[Joe67 239]

what river were you fishing mate?ma uncle always told me to put some cans down in a field and keep trying to cast to them,open field makes it abit easyer when starting off and less stuff to get the line caught in.sounds like your doing well,my casting still isnt to good lol

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

Loads of black flying ants about so a small black dry fly?

[KittleRox 2,147]

Loads of black flying ants about so a small black dry fly?