Hi Rhys, thank you for your help and time to help us guys who don’t get the chance to get to the water as often as we can! I’m a disabled fisherman who loves fly fishing and I have represented my country at disabled level. I find your information absolutely priceless! Huge respect and gratitude! Love your accent too! I could listen to you all day! Personally, I think you should make TV programs!
Rhys the information is invaluable to a newbie like myself, a month by month recommendation fly would be ideal for me as I’m still learning the growth and change process. Great channel my go to for advice.
Great video! Very informative 👏 Enjoying my first summer dry fly fishing at the haylie, cdc (cauldy's) getting me into double figures even on the brightest of days
As a South African I find your tips and advice superior, although our waters here are not as clear or at times as good as yours. I am still able to apply most of it, thanks for awesome videos 👌👍🎣😁
Hi Rhys, Great video! How would you decide on whether to fish a CDC vs foam suspender buzzer. Does it come to whether it has to hold up a dropper such as buzzer or are there other things that come in play?
Foam suspender buzzers will generally sit deeper in the surface film over a CDC so usually it's a good starting point to fish a sussie buzzer or top hat. Sometimes they'll want the CDC more, it's just a matter of trial and error on the day :)
@@RhysFishes yeah that’s what I have been doing. Think it’s just the lack of oxygen with the heat up here in Scotland. Not something I can say a lot lol
I'm in Scotland, and with the water being soo warm all I've found to work for me is stuff in small sizes 18, 20 downwards especially shipmans and daddy's
Hello Rhys, another great video but is it for rivers as well ? I fish the Vyrnwy and as a novice have been learning much however with conditions as they are the only rises are at pool ends with 4-5in brownies and 20ft ahead of the shoals of 7in grayling all feeding it seems on greenfly in the surface film, I have gone down to size 18 flies and get some rises but no takes and often see the grayling turn away before the rise but nothing spooks or stops them so what to put on the end of the line is my problem as I have nothing 2mm long lol.....ideas welcome
This is aimed at stillwaters michael. For the rivers take a look at size 18-20's with very minimalistic dressings. Griffiths knat, klinkhammers and small dries (foam dun) foe example
Rhys i need your help,I have my first big compitition on saturday at a hard fishing lake with big trout.What way would you go about fishing.Im in Ireland Thanks
Av always fished dry flies as I never got the hang of sinking flies I always seemed to get snagged and never used them again but yesterday I tried it down the river and caught me first brown trout on a gold beaded gold nymph and missed 3 more, I didn't put another dry fly on for the first time ever
Hi Rhys. I know this is a common question but it's one that I haven't found an answer to that has worked for me. How do you keep CDCs floating? I started off ginking but have since read that chemical floatants don't work on CDC. I've tried bringing out the paper towels and elastic bands to try and paper dry them or twang them, hasn't worked. I've tried false casting a lot more, not worked. All that has worked for me is adding a tiny bit of foam on the shank but this obviously changes the look and posture of the fly. I've only tested it in the kitchen sink and not the water. Any suggestions much appreciated!
Sounds like not enough plumes in the fly perhaps. Gink first, after a fish I dry with an amadou / blow air at it and if need be put it in a small tub of foam silica (frogs fanny/loon for example) that does the trick. If that doesn't work then I know i've underdressed the fly at the outset
Just a question to the UK fisherman do u guys need to remortgage yr house each time u have to buy tippet rings??? In SA South Africa they r 🤬ing expensive why?????
We don’t seem to have that issue here but they aren’t the be all and end all. You can just use a knot to attach both but it will eventually eat away at the tapered leader
Hi Rhys, thank you for your help and time to help us guys who don’t get the chance to get to the water as often as we can! I’m a disabled fisherman who loves fly fishing and I have represented my country at disabled level. I find your information absolutely priceless! Huge respect and gratitude! Love your accent too! I could listen to you all day! Personally, I think you should make TV programs!
That’s very kind Jon. Thanks for the feedback
This is a great help Rhys, as I’ve really been struggling the last couple of months having to fish a single fly on my local water.
No problem 🎣
Rhys the information is invaluable to a newbie like myself, a month by month recommendation fly would be ideal for me as I’m still learning the growth and change process. Great channel my go to for advice.
Cheerd adrian!
Great video! Very informative 👏
Enjoying my first summer dry fly fishing at the haylie, cdc (cauldy's) getting me into double figures even on the brightest of days
Thanks. I miss fishing the haylie. Great little fishery!
Great informative video Rhys 👍
Cheers Mark
Fantastic update thanks Rhys. I'll be taking note as fishing a Reservoir today and the Usk River next week.
Cheer neil. Best of luck 🎣
As a South African I find your tips and advice superior, although our waters here are not as clear or at times as good as yours. I am still able to apply most of it, thanks for awesome videos 👌👍🎣😁
Thanks dewald
Excellent video, thanks for the help again 👌
No probs 👍
Brilliant again Rhys
Thanks 🎣
Great video Rhys, very informative 👏
Cheers 👍
Great information Rhys👍
Thanks john
Hi Rhys, Great video! How would you decide on whether to fish a CDC vs foam suspender buzzer. Does it come to whether it has to hold up a dropper such as buzzer or are there other things that come in play?
Foam suspender buzzers will generally sit deeper in the surface film over a CDC so usually it's a good starting point to fish a sussie buzzer or top hat. Sometimes they'll want the CDC more, it's just a matter of trial and error on the day :)
Amazing content as always! 5*
Cheers tom
Great video Rhys
Cheers graham
Great vid Rhys i will se you in the next Eistedd competition👌👌 next year 👍✅
Definetely iwan 🎣
Great stuff pal.
Cheers pal
Great help again mate. What about on days when it’s bright and sunny and there not feeding off the top?
Get the buzzers out and work through the water column 🎣
@@RhysFishes yeah that’s what I have been doing. Think it’s just the lack of oxygen with the heat up here in Scotland. Not something I can say a lot lol
I've found a team of Griffiths gnats, size 16 on the point and an 18, tied new Zealand style do very well. based in Ayrshire Scotland.
Nice one
Why do you use a tapered leader to a ring when using drys? Great Vid!!!
To assist with presentation, especially if fishing into a breeze
Excellent video, what are fish eating when they shoot out the water is it fry?
Could be. But at this time of year it could also be a sign of stress or a fish trying to rid it's body of parasites 👍
Hi Rhys just watched your video another great informative one just wondering how long do you tie your droppers and how often do you gink the flies
6/7 inches. Ginked at the start and reapplied if and when a fish is caught
When you use Stroft witch one is it as there is several
Stroft GTM or Stroft ABR
I'm in Scotland, and with the water being soo warm all I've found to work for me is stuff in small sizes 18, 20 downwards especially shipmans and daddy's
you ever seen a size 20 daddy longlegs lol.
Nice oliver 🎣
Hello Rhys, another great video but is it for rivers as well ? I fish the Vyrnwy and as a novice have been learning much however with conditions as they are the only rises are at pool ends with 4-5in brownies and 20ft ahead of the shoals of 7in grayling all feeding it seems on greenfly in the surface film, I have gone down to size 18 flies and get some rises but no takes and often see the grayling turn away before the rise but nothing spooks or stops them so what to put on the end of the line is my problem as I have nothing 2mm long lol.....ideas welcome
This is aimed at stillwaters michael. For the rivers take a look at size 18-20's with very minimalistic dressings. Griffiths knat, klinkhammers and small dries (foam dun) foe example
For me it's a Klinkhammer on the dropper on a 9' leader and a goldbead on the point, either black brown,green size 12,14,16 keep it simple.
Happy days keith
Hi Rhys, with dry flies do you generally use more than one and if so do you tie them on droppers like buzzers ? Thanks
Single fly for small stillwaters. Multiple flies via droppers for large resi's 🎣
Rhys i need your help,I have my first big compitition on saturday at a hard fishing lake with big trout.What way would you go about fishing.Im in Ireland
Thanks
This time of year there's a generous amount of food available for fish so stick with high water tactics - washing line /dries
@@RhysFishes thank you rhys
Av always fished dry flies as I never got the hang of sinking flies I always seemed to get snagged and never used them again but yesterday I tried it down the river and caught me first brown trout on a gold beaded gold nymph and missed 3 more, I didn't put another dry fly on for the first time ever
Nice
Hi Rhys. I know this is a common question but it's one that I haven't found an answer to that has worked for me. How do you keep CDCs floating? I started off ginking but have since read that chemical floatants don't work on CDC. I've tried bringing out the paper towels and elastic bands to try and paper dry them or twang them, hasn't worked. I've tried false casting a lot more, not worked. All that has worked for me is adding a tiny bit of foam on the shank but this obviously changes the look and posture of the fly. I've only tested it in the kitchen sink and not the water. Any suggestions much appreciated!
Cdc oil or squeeze the feathers between your fingers. Use more feathers when you tie. Or use foam or polypropylene instead of cdc.
Sounds like not enough plumes in the fly perhaps. Gink first, after a fish I dry with an amadou / blow air at it and if need be put it in a small tub of foam silica (frogs fanny/loon for example) that does the trick. If that doesn't work then I know i've underdressed the fly at the outset
Much appreciated chaps.
Just a question to the UK fisherman do u guys need to remortgage yr house each time u have to buy tippet rings??? In SA South Africa they r 🤬ing expensive why?????
We don’t seem to have that issue here but they aren’t the be all and end all. You can just use a knot to attach both but it will eventually eat away at the tapered leader
A smashed that subscribe and now it’s no working cheers Welsh man
Cheers ian
hello
Hi paul