Lol December mate when it's a bit colder and your right Gordon get your float rod out lol last year on your videos the later the cold month went on yees were getting them bigger lollll fluff chucking lol love it lolllll😂
Keep at it lads. I know you say you don't like the Czech nymph style but it really is deadly when you master it. Some of Andy Buckley's early TH-cam videos have some really good tips and techniques and have taught me loads.
I'm far from an expert G, but learned some stuff fishing for these stunning beasts. Try Oros or Corqs floats, they allow you to very quickly adjust depth, you need to keep adjusting depth so that your tickling the bottom, particularly in the depths of winter. Something new I'm trying is dropshot instead of tungsten nymphs, a couple of no6 shot at terminal end of leader, and unweighted nymphs on short droppers above (one just above these). Means you 'hook' the bottom way less and if you want to add or remove weight, your not changing flies to do this. Keep your lines short too, tempting to try and have big long drifts, but you'll catch more fish using shorter drifts, means less drag, bite detection is better. Just water load cast, no need for loads of false casts. I fish a beat or two above, no Grayling fishing til 1st December, canny wait. Had some nice ones off the Ayr already, but the fish in 'your' river are something else!. Definitely need to be keeping changing tactics, depths and flies, and fish seams between fast and slow water. Fish I'm catching at the moment are still in streamy water, generally right on the edges of it or at the tails of streams.
Only thing I see slightly wrong Gordon Don’t think you where leavening the nymph in long enough ie recasting to quick. Just an observation no a criticism. I’m my experience letting it get down a bobbing along for a while works just resetting it and taking the slack up as it drifts. But I don’t know the nith so I might be talking mince. But hope it may help. Love your work lads.
Doing nothing wrong… far too mild I’m seeing Grayling still topping for flies .. once it gets colder and they get there heads down they’ll kick in….I’ll be looking forward to my week on the Teviot… all the best lads
Gordon a wee tip for you a wee pause when you reach the end of your backcast this will come with practice don't know if anyone else has mentioned it part from that you're doing no bad mate. Great vidio by the way
Enjoyed this greatly, lads! I've dabbled myself with the euro nymphing and had a good few grayling over the years on it, but i have to admit i prefer centrepin trotting!! Nowadays, i relish dry fly in October (or in winter if they respond to a hatch) - you ought to try it, generally small fish, lots of misses and refusals, but great fun. Then switch to trotting when the cold weather hits. Thats a cracking river, beautifully filmed. The ones i fish produce the odd 2 pounder but not in numbers, and a pounder would be the right side of average. The trotting v Czech nymph thing can get get heated- I did a video earlier in the year questioning whether tight nymphing was fly fishing at all, good debate, but it upset a few bods and I lost some subscribers 😂 Looking forward to more content 👌 👍
Thanks mate. The dry fly does sound good. It took me that long to get a rainbow on the dry fly, I fear I might not have many winters left in me to try for a grayling.
September and October conditions are pretty kind usually! And lots of top water activity- only thing is, my hunch is maybe you're on a salmon river here? Maybe you can only fish for grayling at grayling prices after the end of the salmon season??
100% wif yiz lads,, canny beat the wee Avon float n tungsten weight tae suit,, n below that the wee brandlin worm or maggot coverin every bit oh water tae perfection,, ditch that lesbian fluff chuckin😂,, unless rules say otherwise.!! Enjoy your vids,, Tight Lines.!!😉🤙🤙
That's the problem with the Green Umbrella Brigade, they think fly fishing is easy, like anything you have to devote time and effort into it. Are your nymphs heavy enough to be getting to the bottom? What's your rig like? 1 or 2 nymphs? I'll fish a 3 fly rig with 2 weighted nymphs on point and middle and a hopper or such like on the top. Don't dismiss Euro-nymphing, it's deadly and helped me get the better Grayling too. Stop trying to cast for the heavens.
Not clued up on the 'Green Umbrella Brigade' I was fishing 2 nymphs, defo heavy enough. Not dismissing anything. Stop trying to cast for the heavens? I'm still learning how to do it, so a little more description needed as to what you mean. Cheers G 🤝🏻
was a pleasure meeting you guys on the lake a couple of fridays ago and having a chat in the car park 👋
You to Colin. 🤝🏻
Enjoyable as always guys
Lol December mate when it's a bit colder and your right Gordon get your float rod out lol last year on your videos the later the cold month went on yees were getting them bigger lollll fluff chucking lol love it lolllll😂
Keep at it lads. I know you say you don't like the Czech nymph style but it really is deadly when you master it. Some of Andy Buckley's early TH-cam videos have some really good tips and techniques and have taught me loads.
Got me in the mood for Sunday 🎣
I'm far from an expert G, but learned some stuff fishing for these stunning beasts. Try Oros or Corqs floats, they allow you to very quickly adjust depth, you need to keep adjusting depth so that your tickling the bottom, particularly in the depths of winter. Something new I'm trying is dropshot instead of tungsten nymphs, a couple of no6 shot at terminal end of leader, and unweighted nymphs on short droppers above (one just above these). Means you 'hook' the bottom way less and if you want to add or remove weight, your not changing flies to do this. Keep your lines short too, tempting to try and have big long drifts, but you'll catch more fish using shorter drifts, means less drag, bite detection is better. Just water load cast, no need for loads of false casts. I fish a beat or two above, no Grayling fishing til 1st December, canny wait. Had some nice ones off the Ayr already, but the fish in 'your' river are something else!.
Definitely need to be keeping changing tactics, depths and flies, and fish seams between fast and slow water. Fish I'm catching at the moment are still in streamy water, generally right on the edges of it or at the tails of streams.
Only thing I see slightly wrong Gordon Don’t think you where leavening the nymph in long enough ie recasting to quick. Just an observation no a criticism. I’m my experience letting it get down a bobbing along for a while works just resetting it and taking the slack up as it drifts. But I don’t know the nith so I might be talking mince. But hope it may help. Love your work lads.
I'll take all the help I can get mate. Shall bare it in mind next time. 🤝🏻
Doing nothing wrong… far too mild I’m seeing Grayling still topping for flies .. once it gets colder and they get there heads down they’ll kick in….I’ll be looking forward to my week on the Teviot… all the best lads
Thanks mate. Best of luck
Been looking forward to this one lads. Another fine video. Hopefully catch up with you on the bank this winter💪🏻🎣
Gordon a wee tip for you a wee pause when you reach the end of your backcast this will come with practice don't know if anyone else has mentioned it part from that you're doing no bad mate.
Great vidio by the way
Thanks mate, I'll take awe the tips I can get, so thank you 🤝🏻
Enjoyed this greatly, lads!
I've dabbled myself with the euro nymphing and had a good few grayling over the years on it, but i have to admit i prefer centrepin trotting!!
Nowadays, i relish dry fly in October (or in winter if they respond to a hatch) - you ought to try it, generally small fish, lots of misses and refusals, but great fun. Then switch to trotting when the cold weather hits.
Thats a cracking river, beautifully filmed. The ones i fish produce the odd 2 pounder but not in numbers, and a pounder would be the right side of average.
The trotting v Czech nymph thing can get get heated- I did a video earlier in the year questioning whether tight nymphing was fly fishing at all, good debate, but it upset a few bods and I lost some subscribers 😂
Looking forward to more content 👌 👍
Thanks mate. The dry fly does sound good. It took me that long to get a rainbow on the dry fly, I fear I might not have many winters left in me to try for a grayling.
September and October conditions are pretty kind usually! And lots of top water activity- only thing is, my hunch is maybe you're on a salmon river here? Maybe you can only fish for grayling at grayling prices after the end of the salmon season??
@soultrader57fishingandmusi25 this would be correct mate
Great video, is that the Clyde your on
No mate, we sometimes give that a bash aswell.
100% wif yiz lads,, canny beat the wee Avon float n tungsten weight tae suit,, n below that the wee brandlin worm or maggot coverin every bit oh water tae perfection,, ditch that lesbian fluff chuckin😂,, unless rules say otherwise.!! Enjoy your vids,, Tight Lines.!!😉🤙🤙
Lesbian fluff chuckin 🤦♂️🫣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's the problem with the Green Umbrella Brigade, they think fly fishing is easy, like anything you have to devote time and effort into it.
Are your nymphs heavy enough to be getting to the bottom? What's your rig like? 1 or 2 nymphs? I'll fish a 3 fly rig with 2 weighted nymphs on point and middle and a hopper or such like on the top.
Don't dismiss Euro-nymphing, it's deadly and helped me get the better Grayling too.
Stop trying to cast for the heavens.
Not clued up on the 'Green Umbrella Brigade'
I was fishing 2 nymphs, defo heavy enough.
Not dismissing anything.
Stop trying to cast for the heavens? I'm still learning how to do it, so a little more description needed as to what you mean.
Cheers G 🤝🏻
Stick to lochs 😂😂
Probably right.