advice req.

[john]

hi,i am going to a new venue on fri.it is a PAAS water and apparentley the ponds/pools are full of wild brown trout,where do i start??? cheers,john.

[Zinky]

give us a hint at the location.

[Cranfield]

"Ponds and pools" and "wild brown trout", don,t usually go together.

 

Ask the fishery management what has been the favoured flies and if there is a hatch at all.Take their advice and match any hatch.

 

In the absence of any better info and assuming it will be hot and sunny, I would fish a dark coloured nymph, on the bottom, slowly.

[greg long]

check for surface activity, if none fish nymphs deep and slow

[bobbyf]

Personally ,Black Pennell size 14/16 on the dropper and a Black and peacock spider 14/16[slightly weighted,not gold bead] on the point..not everyones choice but has helped me on a new water many a time!!!

 

I usually fish just one dropper!!!

 

[ 16. August 2002, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: bobbyf ]

[john]

thanks to all who replied.the venue is an ancient moat near llanstanfraid in n.wales.from the ordnance map it seems that a sream feeds the moat from the rv.vrnwry.although we could not see it when we got there.anyway i managed two fish around the pound mark on a bloodworm/buzzer plus a small chub,my mate had two similar fish using a black 'beetle' like fly twithed along the bottom.cheers.John.