Hi Howard, Thanks for sharing great tips and technique’s for small Stillwater fishing. Your thinking and explanations on how you approach each step for your fly fishing are so useful… I’ve learnt so many things from your videos, best regards, Wayne 😀👍
Whatever happened to this channel, as it seems to have died a death? I found it by chance, and it helped me somewhat, then I find all the videos are three years old.
Dear Howard, sorry to back-track to the river video you posted several months ago, but would you consider demonstrating how you tie up your own leader? I found the quick change between dry fly to nymph very interesting, Although I don't fish still waters, I find all your topics enlightening. Thank you
Hey Howard, super helpful video, thanks. I had a question about finding depth with the midge tip. Do you use beaded flies on the point often and do you switch between brass beads and tungsten? I don’t have a great degree of confidence in tungsten nymphs or buzzers in Stillwaters unless I’m over very deep water as they sink so quickly that I have trouble gauging how deep they’re fishing and if I’m just hanging up on the bottom.
What tippet size would you use when fishing a big streaking caddis size 8 dry fly, in a stony, medium sized river for 3-4-5 pound brown trouts? Can i use a 4x for that or will the leader not be able to present the quite big dry fly accuratly? Cheers
Howard, as always thank you for sharing your knowledge. On larger, perhaps deeper, stillwaters, do you still find you use a D3 (for the reasons you mention in the video) more than a faster sinker? Thanks. Cheers,
Always nice to hear your advice. Now the burning question what make model and distributor did you get your fly tying light from. Please put me out of my misery can't find anything like that. Expensive I'm sure and probably foreign but it certainly looks like it works.
Depends but typically between 5-8ft to the top dropper then flies around 5-6ft apart , I change spacings a lot depending on how I’m fishing and how the fish are feeding , with the midge tip you can change the point fly from a Fab or booby if fishing high to a tungsten buzzer etc if wanting to fish deeper . It’s a very versatile set up .
@@howardcrostonflyfisher9227 I recently fished my first competition a few weeks ago and used the midge tip the whole time, beat my personal best twice in one day and came in joint 6th with a few other people so Yeh it's very very versatile.
100% . If you think about it in an extreme scenario if the fish are cruising at say 10ft and your fishing an acceptable fly but 9ft above or below them your chances are much lower than fishing the “wrong” fly at the right depth . Obviously there’s lots of factors at play but the wrong fly fished well in most cases will win out . Poor take conversion- nips & pulls can be down to a lot of factors and depends on what method your using but when pulling quite often a drop in fly size or a change in how your fishing can help - ie faster or slower retrieve or a “rip & stop” type retrieve can all help , generally if I’m getting non- committal takes I will keeping changing things until it’s fixed including the flies .
