Buzzers

[MIK 4,756]

90% of my troots are taken on the cdc

[nikon 44]

Nite light and sweetcorn

[MIK 4,756]

Nite light and sweetcorn

Ive seen the pics

[leegreen 2,153]

Nite light and sweetcorn

 

 

Like running Hares in the snow.

[charlie caller 3,654]

Another good day saturday using the buzzer, 2 nice fish and lost one, sunday was far too windy to use a floating line, but managed to take a nice fish on a pink fritz mini lure, but when it was cleaned, guess what it had been feeding on? Yep stuffed with black buzzers lol.

Edited April 15, 2014 by charlie caller

[Sirius 1,391]

 

 

 

 

Some of mine. I like to fish a slim buzzer under a foam headed buzzer.

Good selection. Tie them yourself?

Yes mate, I only use flies I've tied myself.

I must dust the vice off and make a few more myself!

[charlie caller 3,654]

Note to self, buy a good quality intermediate line for windy occasions, the slower the sink rate the better, what do people think is the best one? Obviously Cortland ice blue, or clear cammo 444 springs to mind, I have also heard some very good things about Shakespeare Sigma lines too, your thoughts lads please.

[Furittus 35]

If Carlsburg made intermediate lines they would have made the Cortland ice blue, " PROBABLY THE BEST INTERMEDIATE LINE IN THE WORLD".

[mart02 5]

I've been using the same airflo fast clear intermediate and slow clear intermediate for the last 9 or so years now. I got them from the game fair at chatsworth, and they were only about 15 or 20 quid each. There great lines, cast well and haven't cracked after all these years. I like the fact that there clear too for when the fish are a bit spooky. Not sure what the new versions are like but I would recommend the ones I got.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Here's a little story for you: I've been fly fishing for over thirty years and after all that time sometimes you still get stumped by the trout.

My mate had invited me up onto his local upland reservoir, telling me he was going to show me how to fish etc etc. You've heard it all before. I'd not been on this water before and we arrived to find a lovely sunny day with just a murmer of ripple, perfect for the dry fly.

So we each spreads out and starts fishing, and I'm getting whooped, but the day's a nice one and it isn't so bad. Trout are rising here and there and I manage to winkle a couple out on a foam bodied beetle creation. Dusk arrives and neither myself nor my mate could get a touch. All around us trout were swirling like sharks, dorsals breaking the surface in the oily calm. It was incredible. The air was heavy and humid and a million midges covered the lake but no matter what dry fly we tried we couldn't get anything.

I'd tried a few buzzers fished under a dry earlier to no avail and I knew i was missing something. But what?Those trout were pre occupied on something, at some stage of its life, and after a little ponder I came to the conclusion that they were gorging on buzzers about to emerge.

Problem being, I didn't have a fly to match the hatch.

Or did I?

Some 25 years earlier I had flirted with polyball buzzers, but they can't have done much good as they never got tried more than once. And there they'd sat in a corner of my wheatley. A quarter of a century, sat doing nothing. Redundant.

Well, just like Rudolph on that snowy night, suddenly this badly tied fly was going to be useful, needed. Essential.

 

I could tell how I'd imporoved my fly tying skills for the polyball buzzer was roughly made, probably in a rush and with very cheap hooks as, back then, money was at a premium.

First cast and I spotted a bow wave, the trout moping up emerging buzzers like they were going otu of fashion. My white headed buzzer plainly visible and it was simplicity itself to pull the buzzer right into the path of the patrolling trout. I think I ended up catching seven or eight with the buzzer until everything fell apart. I'd also given my mate one too as , when he saw me catching every cast, he came over and asked what i was using. So I had one left, and after I took a photograph i tied it on. First cast out and i got snapped. So that was the end of those flies that had been tied with young fingers some 25 years earlier and had lain in the corner of a flybox ever since.

Funny old game this fly fishing ain't it.....JD

[MIK 4,756]

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I fished with these a lot last year and found they worked well in flat calm ....if it is calm a put a hover tapered leader with around 10ft 4-5lb florocarbon ...the idea is that in flat calm the hover sinks the floro under the surface ......i tie some small 18 cdcs that work well ...you cant beat a summers night when there on the rise do you lads down south get a small white fly called caennis that hatches in its thousands around end of april may ?

[Tiercel 6,986]

https://www.fullingmill.com/index.php?idPage=13&c=368&p=867

I fished with these a lot last year and found they worked well in flat calm ....if it is calm a put a hover tapered leader with around 10ft 4-5lb florocarbon ...the idea is that in flat calm the hover sinks the floro under the surface ......i tie some small 18 cdcs that work well ...you cant beat a summers night when there on the rise do you lads down south get a small white fly called caennis that hatches in its thousands around end of april may ?

When it was flat calm as you describe we used to use fullers earth and fairy liquid mixed it would be just enough to get the leader in the surface film and a dab of Musclin about an inch from the fly.

 

TC

[MIK 4,756]

Thast what I used to do Tc but with the method I use now theres no need for doing that ...it works a treat

[charlie caller 3,654]

https://www.fullingmill.com/index.php?idPage=13&c=368&p=867

I fished with these a lot last year and found they worked well in flat calm ....if it is calm a put a hover tapered leader with around 10ft 4-5lb florocarbon ...the idea is that in flat calm the hover sinks the floro under the surface ......i tie some small 18 cdcs that work well ...you cant beat a summers night when there on the rise do you lads down south get a small white fly called caennis that hatches in its thousands around end of april may ?

Ahhhhh the anglers curse, we certainly get them here I can tell you that, the cause of more swearing than any other fly,

[Furittus 35]

Yea, we get them over here to, (even the very thought of them).