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The only time I tried this before yesterday was for chub on a river many years ago. The difference was it was a small river, upper reaches and low depth and clear water most of the time and I could sometimes see the fish. If I couldn't I knew their haunts well as I had fished it many times so knew where to try. I also worked out quickly which flies to use, big black bushy ones generally and I was fairly successful.
Yesterday was totally different, I was fishing blind, I had not fished the river for two years and the swims I remembered that were good were inaccessible because of exceptional bank growth, its deep and fish cannot be seen and after such a long spell away from the river, where they still good anyway! I was hoping for mullet maybe but it was a bit early for them and I did not see any. So it was just a case of casting and hoping, you are not using any device to attract fish into your swim
Eventually I had one small chub but it seemed a daunting forlorn task and my feeling is this type of fishing blind with fly was probably only ever going to produce small fish if any.
My conclusion is it is probably not worth the bother unless you can see fish or know there haunts, know what flies to use and have good accessibility so probably best on small clear rivers and streams but not bigger open rivers - lower reaches where fish maybe sparse, unknown locality etc..
I spent most of the day thinking I should be here with a float bread and sweetcorn attracting fish to me as I would have normally have done however I enjoyed the lightness and deftness of it all.
Yesterday was totally different, I was fishing blind, I had not fished the river for two years and the swims I remembered that were good were inaccessible because of exceptional bank growth, its deep and fish cannot be seen and after such a long spell away from the river, where they still good anyway! I was hoping for mullet maybe but it was a bit early for them and I did not see any. So it was just a case of casting and hoping, you are not using any device to attract fish into your swim
Eventually I had one small chub but it seemed a daunting forlorn task and my feeling is this type of fishing blind with fly was probably only ever going to produce small fish if any.
My conclusion is it is probably not worth the bother unless you can see fish or know there haunts, know what flies to use and have good accessibility so probably best on small clear rivers and streams but not bigger open rivers - lower reaches where fish maybe sparse, unknown locality etc..
I spent most of the day thinking I should be here with a float bread and sweetcorn attracting fish to me as I would have normally have done however I enjoyed the lightness and deftness of it all.
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