It’s always a good feeling for myself and Gaz to get out for the first time in Clywedog after all the preparations in getting the fishery up and running for the season. Pre season stock, boats back on the water, engines and bits and bobs around the fishery then straight into opening day. Neither of us get much sleep the night before but it always comes round with the weather more often than not having it’s say on...
Gazza Dixon is a former Brown bowl Champion multi caped Welsh international fly fisher and part of the hugely successful Welsh Hawks Fly Fishing team. He is also the head ranger at the Amazing Llyn Clywedog Trout Fishery and lives and breaths fishing. He is not only a very talented fly fisher but a great fly tyer and innovator he is always working on the next top pattern. Black and Gold Humongous If I could only fish one fly...
Description by Wayne Jones I am not sure where this come from Gareth Jones from Airflo I think. Its great addition to the candy booby and works really on the hang when fished on the top dropper. I can really see why this is so effective on the hang it just has lots going on. It is easy to see why so many competition anglers have these types of fly in their arsenal. You wont regret adding a few of...
Wayne Jones is a multi capped Welsh international fly angler and part of the very successful Welsh Hawks Fly Fishing Team. Wayne is also the founder and owner of the Fly Shop and found it very hard to pick just ten patterns, but these ten patterns have all caught lots of trout and had some great results in the competitions . Small Eyed Candy Floss Booby If I had to fish one fly on the large Reservoirs this would be it....
Top scottish small water competition Fly Angler Alec Bowler Picks His Top Ten Deadly Small Stillwater Trout Flies Hot head lurcher A versatile pattern which can be fished on a floating line with a slow figure of 8 or on a fast or slow glass depending on water depth. With the movement of the legs it works just as good under an indicator works best in coloured water. A versatile pattern which can be fished on a floating line with a slow figure...
Jim Crawford is a top competition fly angler. He is part of the very successful Change FF fly fishing team. He has many achievements from winning the Bob Church classic to 3 team gold medals at the Anglian Water international Loch style team championship. Jim Crawford Picks His Top Ten Deadly Stillwater Trout Flies.
2 time brown bowl winner and top fly fishing competition angler Arden pollock Picks His Top Ten Deadly Stillwater Trout Flies Yellowhead db - A great fly for the middle of the cast fished at all depths, but particularly good as part of a washing line set up on a midge tip either fished static or very slowly. This is one of the flies that helped clinch the brown bowl on Menteith.
Former World Champion Russell Owen and top Uk competition angler has picked his Top Ten Deadly Stillwater Trout Flies. Black Quill shuttlecock : This has to be my number one dry fly plain and simple if the fish are up in the water feeding on emerging insects of even the odd terrestrial fish love the way this pattern presents itself half in half out. I caught over 40 fish in one comp on Clywedog on this pattern last season
Change team trip to Loch Insch. It is always a struggle getting out together as a team so when the boys suggested a trip up to Aberdeen’s super fishery, Loch Insch we were all buzzing. A 5am pick up from Derek Hessett and up to Killie for Andy Dunn and then onto the fishery where we met Wullie Leach and Jock Kettles. It takes approximately 3 and a bit hours from AYR and the construction of the new Aberdeen ring road is excellent. Our...
For the last trip of the year I decided to visit Ellerdine lakes for the first time with Russ Owen. I can’t believe I have never fished here before. Russ has fished it a few times and we planned to fish together and cover all 4 lakes. The night before I was sorting my gear and made a quick phone call to Andy Taylor for some pointers. He recommended 2 methods. Method one, a floater, 2 corms and cat on...
