Stillwater fishing.
June 22nd, 2009 | 
Douglas_Admin
Well, I made it back to Selmmuir with my rod in hand and my brother for company. This was the first time we have fished Selmmuir since it re-opened and we were sure we would have a good evening. Craig lost a trout on his very first cast and put his fly in a tree on his second so not a good start for him. I had started out fishing on a floating line with a green/white cat's whistkers, a couple of trout made snaps at it but missed, I noticed they were coming almost straight up from bellow the lure so I decided to change to an intermediate line feeling that the trout were down a bit. I spent a good while not fishing as usual, chatting is always my downfall and after about 45 mins of doing nothing I decided to get back to it. within about 5/6 casts I had my first trout, it took the fly very gently but it fought very hard. A nice fish of about 2.5lb put my shakespeare odyssey telescopic rod to the test.
Craig had missed another two trout in the meantime and was becoming a little frustrated. He switched fly and began fishing an epoxy minnow on a sinking line and within a few minutes he was into his first trout, a nice hardy 2lb'er.
We finished up with another trout each before heading home, Craigs second trout was in his opinion the very best rainbow he has ever caught. He thought it was a brownie at first the way it fought but it was a full finned streamline bullet of a rainbow. For a fish just over 2lb it gave him one great fight, I'm sure he'll also enjoy the trout pate'.
Stillwater
I was up at Selmuir this afternoon which I did enjoy, but unfortunately caught no fish. They were moving but no matter what I used (boobies, gold head lures, epoxy lures)none seemed interested.
Any advice greatfully appreciated. What are the best flies/lures to use on Selmuir as I am a real novice when it comes to stillwater fishing. What is the best lines to use, dry intermediate or sinking?
Cheers
George
The clue was in your post,
The clue was in your post, George. If they were moving then imitative flies would have been the way to go. No point persevering with lures if the fish are up and feeding and the lures aren't interesting them. Various styles of emergers, dries or buzzers dressed on lightweight hooks would have been a better bet. If you can't decide which on the day, try an emerger on the tail, s.14 buzzer on the 2nd dropper and a s.14 or 16 buzzer on the first dropper.
Goatstoes.
Stillwater
Goatstoes
Thanks for that mate. Will be more vigilant next time.
Cheers
George
Meant to say, at Selmuir the
Meant to say, at Selmuir the only lines you need are floating and intermediate, and the floater will see you through almost the whole year.
Goatstoes.
selmmuir fishing
hi george
give me a call next time you are coming up or am there every wednesday myself and i will spend some time with yourself fishing diffent tactics i will give you some of my own flies,as goatstoe says a floating line or intermediate line is all you need,george you can't fish with boobies at selmmuir but no probs.
john
Selmuir fishing
John thanks for that. Also let me amend my terminoligy, I have now discovered that I wasn't using 'boobies' but should have identified them as various 'wooley buggers' like I said, I'm a novice at the stillwater game!
Will be up tomorrow about lunch time (24th)
George
fishing
no probs george,am sure we will get you catching some of those selmmuir trout tomorrow,
john
Selmuir
Yee-Har! I'm no longer a stillwater virgin! Went up this morning and caught a lovely 3lbs beast.
Many thanks to John for the tuition and the advice on what to use - excellent!
Cheers
George
N1.
Well done bigdode, I'm glad to see you have broken your Stillwater duck. I'm sure there will be many more 3lb'ers to battle in the future.
Douglas