Easy dry fly fishing - Dapping on a wild hill loch Scotland 

I've been salmon fishing for the last 20 years but taking a break this year and going for the Trout (it's nice to actually catch something). I'm going to definitely try this with my 15ft Salmon fly rod :)

Tenkara + pole fishing + dapping effective method you have devised there mate good angler to share a method like that respect to you sir 👊 🎣🎣🎣

I thought I was the only person mucking about with dapping rods in the UK, I have a 7m Tubertini, with rings and a purpose made 20' 4 piece rod. You are going in the right direction, you need a boat and a lot more wind. I seldom use an imitation, during the daytime its colour that brings them up, palmers, snakes and occasionally mice, I tailor the size of fly to the wind strength. ATB from the East Midlands. PS, I have a100 slide talk on the subject.

Hi there, thank you for sharing your dapping techniques. I've been Dapping for trout on my local still water for the past two years with great success. So i was interested in watching your video and techniques. From my own experience with four and five pound trout, I don't think that your coarse fish "elastic" system will stop a running fish after the "strike". The more likely result iwill be a broken tippet and escaping trout. Regarding your "strike", my own experience is NOT to strike, at all. Frequently the first show of the fish is to "drown" that skipping fly, and the trout then turns around for a second attempt, and sometimes third to then take the fly. I have found it best to watch the activity and ,when the trout does actually take, then it's own weight, returning to the depths will force the hookup. My advice is DO NOT STRIKE AT ALL. The Dapping rod. I use a seventeen foot telescopic dapping rod with eyes and a reel seat. I use 13 feet of dapping floss with a small loop on each end. One end is attached to 20lb nylon backing of about eighty metres onto a wide arbour reel. The business end is between four and six feet of 6lb tippet. Flies. Well my own thoughts are that the trout doesn't have a lot of time to identify what insect is skipping around airbourne overhead or fluttering on the surface. I palmer tie my own bushy bottlebrush style flies , with deer hair tails and a wee bit of angel hair for added sparkle, in sizes 14 to 10 barbless. When a trout leaps two feet in the air and catches one of these midair, then I'm not worried about trying to match the hatch. I do tie some lighter coloured ones for the darker days, and darker ones for the brighter days, but then my 80 year old eyes are not quite as good as they used to be. It's quite a thrill to watch a trout catch your fly midair. Amazing for the spectators too!!! I also use Mucilin wax to lightly waterproof the hackle fibres and the tail. Dapping Methods. Yes you definitely need the wind blowing from behind you over the water. Less than 9 or 10 mph doesn't really work that well, but above that is great! I start close to the bank with just a couple of feet of water depth. You never know what might be patrolling the margins. I move my rod point slowly from far left to far right and back again, all the while bobbing the rod tip to ensure the fly is lightly skipping over and touching the surface. I gradually extend further out as the wind pulls on the floss. My 20lb backing offers no resistance when being pulled through the rod eys. If there is a lull in the wind I just pull the backing back a few metres until the wind picks up again, and let the wind pull the floss again. DO BE AWARE OF OVERHEAD POWER LINES. In my view, DAPPING is the ultimate dry fly experience. Tight Lines all Bruce

Great thinking, there’s no end to fishing where this could be used for sea trout or salmon.. in the right venue obviously

Another Great watch Doug, brilliant film 🎣

Most interesting video of a technique I've never seen before. Lovely shots of the trout trying to take the fly. Well done. 👍

Loved this, really interesting mix of the two styles and great for people like me who are pants at fly fishing 👏

Tenkara, kinda tried it before with my whip on the wee browny lochs, good fun. The floss stuffs a great idea . Another cracking vid.

Fascinating, love the thinking behind this!

Superb 👏

Super video Douglas, interesting and original! Thank you. 😊😊

Fantastic stuff 👍

Superb Douglas definitely something I'll look into .looked a decent day as well a bit of wind a bit of heat and a bit of cloud fishing weather. As for rising fish it was the same when I was there little or no activity sedges and daddy's on the water did get them early in the day on dries but the sun came out .

That's a first for me, heard of dapping and whips just never saw it done like this with a dry fly for trout, your quite the man for the more unusual techniques. Had a couple of try's with the bombarda method with the sand eel flies for sea trout, once over on the East coast and twice over the West no luck so far though a nice sea trout of around 4ish lb jumped clean out the water a rod length in front of me on one occasion, got a bit excited but no joy, great method though.

Great stuff. Might have to dig out my old shimano pole from the shed and see if the lad fancies a go with it. No matter what, fly fishing is tricky especially for kids and tbh I try to avoid it a bit with the kids. I have a tenkara rod, but a light spinning rod or float with bait in the sea is more accessible in short doses. Great video and a great idea 👍

You can pick up telescopic dapping fly rods for line 20 quid, its a very popular method on most lochs up the west coast esp loch lomond

Nice.... forgotten art. I had big furry salmon dapping fly, it lay in my box for years after inspection one day a flee crawled out, how long it was in there I dont know! So shallow I always I thought on the Roger M, another venue I missed out on. Cheers and ATB

So Tenkara with a long stick 😂😂

the majority of fish coming to the dap will come out the water and down on the fly trying to drown it striking too early is the common mistake in hooking the fish you have to pause the strike a moment to to allow the fish to come down on the fly

Why use a whip when you can use a lightweight fly rod casting a short line with similar results plus if a decent fish hits then you have more chance of landing it

where in the highlands were you