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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)
Guest
The other day I was on my local reservoir and a friend of mine was catching trout with alacrity whilst myself and all the others on the water were struggling.
As I know the guy, I decided to watch him closely to see if he was doing anything differently to ourselves.
He was fishing small buzzer patterns as most of use were, and other than using a fairly short leader his tactics seemed similar to the ones I was using.
Then I spotted it - his line was dark brown, almost turd colour. And yes he had dyed his line on the recommendation that was in a book he had just read - "The Trout and the Fly" by Goddard and Clarke.
But I should have known better! Hadn't I, for many years, used dark coloured floating fly lines on the recommendation of none other than **** Walker.
The trouble is I had become lazy and had caught loads of fish in spite of using brightly coloured line. What I did not consider was the numbers of fish I didn'tcatch.
But have you had a similar experience? What do you think is the right colour for floating fly lines?
As I know the guy, I decided to watch him closely to see if he was doing anything differently to ourselves.
He was fishing small buzzer patterns as most of use were, and other than using a fairly short leader his tactics seemed similar to the ones I was using.
Then I spotted it - his line was dark brown, almost turd colour. And yes he had dyed his line on the recommendation that was in a book he had just read - "The Trout and the Fly" by Goddard and Clarke.
But I should have known better! Hadn't I, for many years, used dark coloured floating fly lines on the recommendation of none other than **** Walker.
The trouble is I had become lazy and had caught loads of fish in spite of using brightly coloured line. What I did not consider was the numbers of fish I didn'tcatch.
But have you had a similar experience? What do you think is the right colour for floating fly lines?