Green Wellies and Baler Twine

Jonty · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:06 am Post subject: New Zeland Style

I went fishing for a couple of hours last night on the River Wharfe at a place called Addingham. The river is shallow, wide and very slow moving at this spot. My mate had just had a guided day on another stretch of the river the previous week and was using a technique his guide had shown him, which was to fish with a bushy dry fly and a nymph underneath it. The nymph was tied 'New Zeland' style onto the dry, this means that you tie a length of monofilament/flourocarbon directly onto the curve of the hook of the 1st fly and then attach your 2nd fly to the end. I've read about this but never tried it, and musrt confess that I was quite impressed. I sometimes find that espescially in slow water the presentation of flies on conventional droppers can be poor as the dropper often coils round the leader rather than presenting the fly a short distance from it. This doesn't seem to be a problem in faster flowing water.

When I'd read about this style of attaching the 2nd fly I'd thought that surely the fish would feel the extra line if going for the 1st fly and reject it, well my mate proved me wrong with a lovely wild brownie on the dry fly. I tried the same presentation myself I did get a couple of takes but nothing stuck. And, admittedly, during a manic rise caused by a great hatch, I was busy swearing and untangling my line from a pile of thistles, sure to form, as soon as I was untangled, the surface of the river was millpond flat Evil or Very Mad

Anyhoo, if you've not tried this method, give it a go and see what you think.

YorkshireBear · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject:

I was shown this for the first time today - using and klinkhamer as an indicator fly - I can't wait to try it however what also became clear today is I need to practice my casting so that I can present cleanly at least most of the time before I complicate things with more than one fly on my line!

Yorkshire Bear

Jonty · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

YorkshireBear · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject:

Not as much as I would like...

Tried Addingham and Gargrave a couple of times.

I have also given Raygill a go a couple of times but this does not seem to be fishing any easier than the river - I only seem to manage to catch Coarse fish even in the trout lake! Getting better at catching Rudd on a klinkhamer!

YorkshireBear