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SPRING! Get your new season off to a flyer... RESERVOIRS
HUGE BROWNS Iain Barr's essential tips
TACTICS
RIVER LURES
Have you tried them yet?
WHERE TO FISH
FLY FOCUS
PITSFORD TIPS HOT TADPOLES Guide to the in-form water
Tie a top early-season lure
investigation FLY DRESSINGS Words & pictures: Jeffrey Prest
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GOING TO EXTREMES
Nostalgia and perfectionism are driving silly prices for certain fly-tying materials, but that doesn’t mean we all have to join in...
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Words: Iain Barr Pictures: Peter Gathercole
A reduced competition calendar at Pitsford means browns can grow on.
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Iain Barr visits Pitsford Water, which is flexing its muscles in the big brown department...
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tactics MEDIUM-SIZED WATERS Words: Paul Procter Pictures: Rod Calbrade
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Early season brown trout Paul Procter visits a revamped Esthwaite Water where brownies reign supreme...
Paul Procter plays a lively brown trout at Esthwaite Water.
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THIS month’s great offer from Glasgow Angling Centre is a complete fly-fishing outfit based around the Greys GR10 fly rod. This four-piece rod is a high performance, smooth, yet powerful, medium action model with a gloss black finish and matching black aluminium reel seat. It has a hard-wearing composite cork handle and features hard lined butt but guides and chrome snake intermediates. It is supplied with a cloth rod bag. For F this great offer you can choose from a 9ft 5wt or 9ft 6wt model when you y place your order. The offer also includes a Stillwater S C60 cassette reel. This large arbor, arbor lightweight reel features a powerful, pow reliable drag and comes complete with one super-light plastic plas spool,
plus two spare spools, that are quick and easy to change so you y get back fishing as quickly as possible. Spools are also sold separately. separ Plus you also get a Greys Gre Platinum Shoot floating fly line, a pocket pock fly box and 50 popular stillwater flies, a pack of three braided br loops and a 50 metre spool of braided br backing. The normal RRP of this outfit is £232.94, but it is available to Trout Fisherman readers for £114.99 – that’s just under half price!
The Greys GR10 fly rod - choose from a 9ft 5wt or 9ft 6wt model.
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Greys Platinum Shoot floating fly line has an easy-cast taper.
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TACTICS SMALL WATERS Words: Phil Dixon Pictures: Peter Gathercole
DROP ZONE! Phil Dixon fishes flies static while ‘watching the water’ for takes!...
Phil nets a Westlow Mere rainbow caught on the drop near the aerators.
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tactics reservoirs Words: Gareth Jones Pictures: Peter Gathercole
Back drifting
A method often frowned upon, but it’s a great way of covering water and fun for newcomers. Gareth Jones explains...
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Back-drifting: Gareth roll casts into the wind and pays out line.
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TACTICS RIVERS Words & pictures: Jeffrey Prest
As exciting as dry fly fishing… All the rage in some countries, lure fishing in UK rivers seems to be not quite ‘ the done thing’. A day on the Ure with Fred Bainbridge and you may wonder why...
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