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Casting: We've all had days when we've been fishing for hours without much success, then someone comes along & is in to a fish almost instantly. The key to remember is 'keep your casting to a minimum'. Even if you don't get much distance, 'your first cast' is your best chance of catching, as after that you are scaring the fish out with your casting range.
You should begin by casting in the area of water closest to you. Start by casting at one side, retrieving, then fanning your next cast around until you reach the other side. After this start casting out a few feet further & again, keep changing where your cast lands by continuing the fan motion. Do this until you either get a fish or have run out of water you can cast to. Either way, you may want to change fishing spots after this to allow any fish to come back into this area.When you first arrive at the water, take time & assess;
1. Weather: Temperature, air pressure & wind direction all effect your fishing.
2. Water clarity: Is it clear, dirty, pea green soup or peaty?
3. Insects: What can you see on or over the water?
4. Rising fish: Are there any signs they are feeding on or near the surface?
Now set up with the appropraite fly line & flies!
After assessing your enviroment
How to spot & avoid sub surface weed. Damsels & sub surface weed beds. Fishing in the summer months means that water plant life is thriving to the point where you can be snagging weed almost every cast (or was it a bite?). When there are huge hatches of Damsels on the go, the winged adults indicate where the sub surface weed beds are. Although there may be thousands of them flying all around, watch out for clusters, like a ball almost and fewer will be outside this area. These damsels are flying directly over a clump of weed that is near to the surface and they fill the area directly over it. If you can aim your cast to at least one foot either side of this cloud of Damsels, you will be fishing the deeper, weed free water right beside it where there are usually fish holding close, feeding & sheltering from the suns rays!
Tying droppers.
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