Fishing Trout

[Knifebar 0]

Dear Forum,

 

I have been fishing since I was child, I fished alsorts of waters.

 

Does anyone agree that using spinners is more productive than using the fly on rivers.

 

I have had limited sucess using flies on the river.

 

 

Knifebar

[c2c 0]

i use spinners because i can't fly fish but always had good results but no big'uns like you see caut with the fly's

[gogogadget 1]

i agree but dont think theres a better feeling than catching a decent fish on fly,id rather fish all day with fly and only catch 1 than all day with spinner and catch 10.

[Knifebar 0]

i use spinners because i can't fly fish but always had good results but no big'uns like you see caut with the fly's

 

 

At the back end of October I had one fish 3 3/4 lb, cock brown fish paired with a female, caught it on a spinner. It was released to spawn, did'nt get a photo. Must do in future so I can post here for other members to see.

 

Knifebar

[Knifebar 0]

i agree but dont think theres a better feeling than catching a decent fish on fly,id rather fish all day with fly and only catch 1 than all day with spinner and catch 10.

 

 

I fished for long periods on my local river with a fly, I tried hard not to fail but I never caught anything substantial like I would with a spinner. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I just can't seem to master it. (I have won a competition before on a lake, fishing from the shore for Rainbows.)

 

Knifebar

[clay man 0]

fly fishing is the best way to fish hook a 3/4 lb brown on you don`t get better clay man :drink:

[Knifebar 0]

fly fishing is the best way to fish hook a 3/4 lb brown on you don`t get better clay man :drink:

 

 

Hi Clay Man

 

Once I caught a wild Brown slightly over 1lb about 5-6 years ago in the local but all I can say it was no big shakes. Some of the fish I caught in the local gave me unbelievable scraps. It would be a bad season if I did'nt catch 12-18 Brownies over 2lb in the local, lots over 1lb. My best fish in the river was a 6 3/4lb pike on a worm. Hard to believe but I have a witness.

 

Strangest thing lots of anglers in the local club would suggest there are no fish in the river but I could always catch fish.

 

Knifebar

[leegreen 2,182]

i agree but dont think theres a better feeling than catching a decent fish on fly,id rather fish all day with fly and only catch 1 than all day with spinner and catch 10.

I couldn't agree more. Anyway is it not the closed season for native trout.

[horse 0]

ahh knifebar what about the worms, have you for gotten the salmon you caught [6ld]

went round the pool like a bloody torpedo some crake that day, after figthing for 15 mins

just about to net him then away he goes again. nearly wet my self laughting when that

young fellow pushed the net in to the fish instead of under him if that line had broke

he would have needed his runing shoes that day looking forward to this year,

 

cheers horse

[Knifebar 0]

ahh knifebar what about the worms, have you for gotten the salmon you caught [6ld]

went round the pool like a bloody torpedo some crake that day, after figthing for 15 mins

just about to net him then away he goes again. nearly wet my self laughting when that

young fellow pushed the net in to the fish instead of under him if that line had broke

he would have needed his runing shoes that day looking forward to this year,

 

cheers horse

How could I forget HORSE, it was some days craic. You caught a 3lb brown trout in the same pool , I can remember the rod bending right over, a local angler said a trout that size was never caught in the river. Sorry I had'nt a photo to give to them but we know better!

 

If the line had a broke, I would be still be doin porridge!

 

Lookin forward to a bit of ferreting some day.

 

Knifebar

[gogogadget 1]

i agree but dont think theres a better feeling than catching a decent fish on fly,id rather fish all day with fly and only catch 1 than all day with spinner and catch 10.

 

 

I fished for long periods on my local river with a fly, I tried hard not to fail but I never caught anything substantial like I would with a spinner. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I just can't seem to master it. (I have won a competition before on a lake, fishing from the shore for Rainbows.)

 

Knifebar

fished all season with fly on my local and caught a few fish upto 1lb, had 1 hour with the spinner and caught a seatrout 3 1/2lb and a salmon 4 1/2lb in the space of 20 mins ,dont think you'll be doing anything wrong its just the way it goes!!

[ferreting1888 7]

i would say fly [bANNED TEXT] if u produce a fly in a natural way u will catcha big fish as long as little ones dnt get in the way

study flys at all different months u will learna lot and believe me ive caught better fightin and bigger fish doin this

[ferretville 69]

Caught many brownie`s on the spinner gold mepp`s is the boy . Hooking a wild brownie on the fly is great fun even the little one`s feel bigger than what they are. Thing with fly fishing on river`s is you need too know your flie`s for each month, and they got to be presented correct if not fish ain`t even gonna bother looking at it. Little spider pattern`s work a treat on my local river. I`ve used the spinner some day`s and the trout will not even look because there feeding on emerger`s , you could flog away all day and not get out on the spinner when there feeding on a specific item. I know a few lad`s who fish lake`s and fishery`s and allway`s catch rainbow`s but put them on the river for the brownie and they struggle . Totally different is river fishing and brownie`s for me will allways be harder too catch than rainbow`s happy fishing everyone FV

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

If its not caught on the fly then its not worth catching

 

I love fly fishing, you cant beat the feeling as the trout gulps down your fly, then its rod bending action all the way to the net.

[fishfish 17]

ive had success with both mthods,but spinning is by far easier and depths reached in fast water surpass the fly,i would highly recomend trying small brass Devon minnows.