How To Fish The Dry Fly on Your Favourite UK Stillwater! (Step-by-Step for Beginners) 

Hi mate. New sub. I fish the Lady Bower often. 5 years now in fly fishing. I'm good at coarse but my days, catching trout is like trying to make the Mrs happy. One day they take huge green buzzers, other FryFlys, other days match the hatch and nothing. It's the love for the research, weather, time of year, temps, sun/no sun, and wind. Thats the part I love! Believe it or not (I'm self-taught) Your video especially this one had helped more than I want to agree with so thanks, pal!

Wow! Thanks Rhys Must videos just show them catching fish with no technique. Bur youve nailed it Ive been frustrated witu amazing rises at barrows bristol and wondering why i dont get the takes... But now i get it! There are different stages so use different flies accordingly. I was getting disheartened thinking i just had bad "luck" but now ive learned more details and its increased my confidence! Why dont other fishing instructors explaon this? Thank you again and keep up the good work

Man, your videos are packed full of great info! Thanks to you I now know what a wind lane is!

Top man rhys thanks for all the help mate it's appreciated tightlines.

best video ive seen ,you make sound so easy,cant wait to get out next week and give it a gothanks

Excellent professional informative and you've taken the mystery out of it thank you i've liked and subscribed 👏👏👏👏👏

Excellent, straight forward advice Rhys. Always enjoy the videos. Keep them coming 👌

Great videos mate. Thanks

Absolutely first class tuition. Thank you!

Now makes sense to me. Many thanks.

Hugely useful. Thanks and tight lines

Solid content, cheers pal!

Thanks for the good information.

Superb. Please keep them coming.

Fantastic video rhys I'm sure this is the kind of knowledge anglers want 🎣

great video mate cheers

Fantastic video as always Rhys

Brilliant video Rhys, good simple strategies with great explanations - sometimes anglers can over complicate their advice to others but I think you nailed it with this one! Hope to see more of the same from you in the future. Tight lines 🎣

Just wow !

Thank youh for the tips, I don't often use dry flies but now I'll have to give it a go using your method

Great video ! Excellent advice

Cheers m8 as always very educational 👍

Great video. As an American, I fished Ireland all morning with an Elk Hair Caddis and caught fish until noon. Size 14 was the most productive. Easy to tie and to fish on still water. The takes were amazing!

Hi Rhys, just wanted to say thank you for the videos you do. Has really improved my catch rate, using a variety of methods that I had never tried before.

Great video, very helpful fir these hot months. New subscriber. Thank you 👍🏻

Best video I’ve seen so far Jesus why is it so hard for people to make it simple , thanks very much Reece, I’ll be sure to check out the rest. I’ve only picked fly fishing up after years of rod and reel this video definitely helps . Goodman.

Well done Rhys. Gold star for you mate. Nice to have some one who knows what there on about. Take care.

As a complete beginner that was a brilliant video. Please keep them coming. So many fly fishing videos lack information on the flie s being used and how to fish them. thanks

Totally new to flyfishing. So far done only dropshots and soft lures. Will look up some beginners stuff in your library :) Great videos.

Thanks Rhys

Valid, succinct. Something of a rarity on U-tube. So many presenters become so entranced by the sound of their own voice that, by the time they get to the point, they and the rest of us have forgotten what it was!

Hi Rhys! Thank You for the outstanding explanation. I try to reach the same in my videos, however, since English isn’t my native language it takes me much more time)) QUESTION: Could You please write down names of those fly patterns? Thank you, tight lines and be blessed!

Hi Rhys, first class video again. Had a cracking day on the dries with my boat partner last week in Brenig 24 to the boat between us. Keep them videos coming. Always full of tip top advice.

Bloody brilliant mate. You are without doubt a very good instructor and great teacher. I notice you use the term hopper, in Australia a hopper is a grass hopper, or a big hopper is a yellow winger. When we fish these hoppers normally on a windy day where they have been blown onto the water. We normally with a net catch these with a net on in the grass and will throw a few on the water and wait till a trout comes up and smashes them hard on the surface. We then cast a dry fly hopper pattern hard onto the surface and wait for the eruption on the water. Great fun as normally you are high on the bank and can see the fish target the grass hopper fly.

Hi Rhys some great videos mate one question what's the name of the midge tip line you use cheers mate Robert from Caerphilly tight lines.

Aggh so thats how you know what flys to team up together by trying to match the hatch or by what food is in the water

Interesting.

I prefer to switch to mono leader for dry/emergers to stop fluro pulling the flies under

Rhys, any chance of a full rig run down please ? I.E. rod length and weight etc.

Another tremendous video Rhys ...it’s brilliant you’re so prepared to share your tips and and not ....like a lot of fly fishermen ( not all I must add !!) keep your secrets to yourself. I’d like to suggest more videos..how can I contact you my friend?

Hi Rhys, amazing as always, your foam daddies, where do you get this from?

Brilliant video. I'm very new to fly fishing and I have been watching all of your videos, they've helped so much. I fish in southwest wales, llys y fran, puddleduck and will be hopefuly getting up to Hayscastle soon. Sorry if this sounds stupid.... but when it comes to the 6lb leader in your first cast, are you attaching the 6lb fluoro directly to the fly line? I've seen so many videos now where people use tapered leaders then add tippet to it as well. I'm just really confused about this. Thanks for all of your content!!

Great video as always bud, please could you show us how to properly fish buzzers under an indicator.. Awesome channel 👍🏻👍🏻

Great video excellent advice mate can you try them flies and won’t the best colours to use thanks

Hi Rhys, Great Video keep them coming. I have a question. Your leader set up, how do you tie on your droppers?. Is it a straight through method or are your droppers with a blood knot leader.

Hi Rhys, great informative video! Got a question - would you use a tapered or level leader for these 2 dry fly rigs? I know all the subsurface lure/bung fishing rigs are with level ones but didn't pick which ones are used here.

Thank you for taking the time to make videos on fishing it is very much appreciated. Can you answer a question for me please. When I fish the dry fly, trout splash at the fly ( I fish The single fly) but don't take the fly. So do I strike at the splash or wait for a pull on the line ? Cheers. Stay Safe

Rhys, I'm a new Subscriber from Portland, Oregon. I've watch now 6 of your videos----very well done! In this video you specify Fluorocarbon for your dry fly leaders. Why Fluorocarbon? Thank you. Cheers,

good tips again rhys nice vid thanks mate

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Hi Rhys that's another fantastic video. I've fished for years snd never new that the fish took the buzzer shucks. I'm astonished I've never heard that before so thank you so much for that. Is there some sort of food ,energy,protein type of thing that's valuable to them. Every day z school day eh. 56 and still learning 😄

Hello Rhys. Started to dry fly fish but have issues with the leader still visible after applying leader sink. Should i buy leaders to increase my chances?. The next issue i have is to buy copolymer leaders or fluorocarbon.

Hi, I'm new to dry flys and iv all ways wondered if it's worth getting a Double Taper line for a better tuernd over.? Grate video bye the way I'm learning a lot, thank you.

In most lakes here in Hampshire we can only use a single fly

Would like to see a video of your fan casting techniques. If you’re leaving the fly for 7 seconds and then recasting, I would have thought all the line pickups (noise and distance on the surface) would put the fish down.

Hello rhys just a quick question when fishing drys when tying on a fly im getting like a pigs tail/kinks 2 3 inches from the fly.the fluorocarbon will stay on the surface after applying mud.i might be using the wrong knot thanks

Hi Rhys. Thanks for this - newbie question though… do I need to apply gink to the emerger / emerging buzzers? Thanks.