Static Buzzer Fly Fishing in Spring 

Hi John, I was watching you in the background and feeling for you. Been in your boots many times. First subscribed to Rhys's channel 18 months ago and it transformed my fishing last season. His knowledge of his quarry, the environment they live in and his ability to read the water is second to non. A pleasure to watch a true Gentleman and Master at work. An absolute credit to our sport.

@@seanl1054 Hi Sean, thanks for sharing my pain! 😃 Yes, Rhys is a gentleman. He is so modest and helpful in his videos, he comes across as a true mentor; it's what gave me the courage to approach him in the first place. I really didn't want to interrupt his filming! Now I have a new practical challenge for him, an entirely new series of videos: 'Rhys Fishes.....with THAT TW@T'.....now there's a challenge.....I'd subscribe, if only for the comedy value!! Forget Mortimer and Whitehouse....we'd make them look like 'Panorama Investigates Fly Fishing!' The viewers would cry with laughter...and poor Rhys would just cry! 😄 😁 🤣 😂

@@johnlloyd2642 Amazon Prime would snatch it up. I could always play the poor English second cousin twice removed 😂

@@seanl1054 I just had a call from Spielberg!!! Yes, the more the merrier! Thank you for your kind comment too Sean: "A pleasurero watch a true Gentleman and Master at work"....credit where its due...Rhys wasn't bad either!! 🤣

Thanks for the kind words John and Shaun. Some days things go to plan and some days they don’t, happens to us all. Garn is fishing very well at this time of year so it’s worth getting back down there and putting the pieces of the puzzle together once again. Tightlines and see you both on the bank again some day 🎣

Thank you. We’re all always learning something new in this sport 🙂

I thought exactly the same. Good sportsmanship 👏

Thank you Dave!

Absolutely agree Ian. Thank you

Thanks john!

Thanks Lewis. Glad you managed to get stuck into the fish. It’s fishing well at the moment so get yourself back down there and go again 🎣

Thank you Sak

Thanks shaun

Have a look at a cortland 444 peach or a wychwood Rocket :)

Many thanks Wayne. That’s what angling is all about 🎣

Thanks 👍

Thanks ALwyn

Cheers sean

Thank you fish disco

Many thanks Chris

Thanks Barr!

Thanks Josh. They'll keep going, just as and when I can :)

Thank you! Cheers!

Cheers Tam

Thanks Hop, videos to follow soon of Scotland :)

Thank you B C

Glad you enjoyed it Mike, thank you

Thanks 👍

Appreciate it robin

Cheers Cameron

Thanks so much! Paul

Absolutely John, thank you.

Thank you 🙌

Like all fishing, luck plays a part 🙂

Glad they’re helpful Simon

You too Lindsay....I've learned a great deal about tying flies from you......I just need to learn how to use them to catch the fish!! 🤣

That’s what it’s al about lindsay 🎣

Thank you Michael

Thank you :)

Thank you so much 😀

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you stjin

video coming soon :)

Give them a go and let me know how it goes 🎣

@Rhys Fishes will do bud 👍🏻

@@RhysFishes it worked a treat buddy.

very much depends on the time of year and fishery you're at. One thing I would say is slow everything right down. Overcast and wind allow you a bit more freedom to make mistakes and move flies fast etc... Sun and flat calm have the complete opposite effect and everything is elongated, so fish small, fish slow and you'll get interest from fish.

Diolch Steve

Start with 2 flies, 6ft apart. Fish with that for a few months. Then move to 3 flies, 5ft apart :)

Thanks James

Thanks, luckily it’s our local water 🙂

Garnffrwd trout fishery :)

Thanks Rhys!

It could have been that there wasn’t much of a hatch on that day or they just liked the look of the blob you were presenting (daphnia present etc). Thank you

Probably am if you recognise the route :)

If a dropper knot gets too short, I’ll normally just tie a fresh leader but that’s just preference. Most anglers will just attatch on another dropper leader to the existing knot 👍

@@RhysFishes cheers, makes sense!

Thank you. I wouldn’t say the 6 is very tippy. I’ve fished 5X with it but had to be very careful, I think there are more flexible rods out there that would cushion the take better than the 6wt if you’re fishing very light. 🎣

@@RhysFishes thanks for the info!! I fish sage r8’s. A 10’ 4 wt and a 10’ 6 wt for Stillwater’s. The 4 wt is a decent dry fly Stillwater rod and the 6 wt is my main Stillwater rod. It’s a six but twenty years ago it would have been an 8 wt. I do run 5x on it at times but I have to be careful. Again, thanks!!

Thanks Geoff. It's just a shakespeare box. Rather inexpensive, around £50 gbp. There are other options such as Daiwa, or even Peli (Peli boxes are robust, heavy and can be customised endlessly, but come at a much higher price point). Tightlines in Canada!

Thanks Rhys. It’s really funny that on this side of the pond, those boxes just don’t seem to be available or as popular with anglers. It’s unfortunate because I can really see the functionality. Any chance you could recommend a vendor there that might ship internationally? If not, that’s ok too. Thanks again.

@@2trout you could try a company called Glasgow angling. I’m not sure of their shipping policy but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. Almost 90% of anglers that take their fishing seriously, used these box style tackle carriers 👍

Thanks Rhys. I’ll check them out. Cheers. Tight lines!

I’ve fished mask, corrib and con over the years, don’t judge a book by its cover 😂

@@RhysFishes only pulling your leg must get me self a good chair box . Me back does kill me when when casting MRI scan badly needed next time your over try Lough sheelin or ennel ennel held the world record for about 100 years for the biggest brown caught . Lough lene not far from the picturesque fore Abby .Lough Derravaragh Lough owel for the pet fish lol . ,Some great lakes around the midlands only thing is salmon don't come in that far . You got a page on FB or what name you go under on it .

@@ColtSievers1000 fantastic fisheries. Jer is on corrib next week. My socials are linked in the video description 🎣

Thanks. It was a homemade bung Paul. My local river doesn’t really come to life until about May so it will be then I’ll start some river videos 👍

I haven’t fished the north east sadly karl. On my list of to do’s however 🎣

Hey Gareth. So it’s a challenge, no doubt about it. The buzzer will forever be in and out of the water column and the only way to get it nailed is to start with a long leader and reduce it down as you go until you hit the sweet spot. It looks like you’ve tried this based on what you’ve said, so your on the right track. More often than not, it’s easier to go with a more lightweight buzzer (cove’s pheasant tail buzzer) when having to adopt single fly method, as this fly will flutter more slowly through the columns than a modern resin buzzer will and therefore sit where you need it too. We’re there fish rising at all? If there were my preference would have been to go to a single dry instead as this takes out the problem of the water columns

The fish were rising early in the morning and I managed a few on a top hat suspended buzzer but by 10am the sun had pushed them down to about 4ft but still actively feeding. Other anglers were catching on the single buzzer. I think I just got frustrated as I struggled to keep the one fly in the right area for a long enough time so like I said lost confidence and switched methods which I know was wrong but I just got it in my head I was never going to catch with the one buzzer not being able to keep it at that 4 ft point long enough

Thanks Byron. It’s a white floater that you can pick up from ‘new haylie fishery’. They’re on Facebook

I don’t personally bother Lee, don’t see the need for it but understand the logic 🎣

With the washing line I applied mucilin to about 2ft of the end of the fly line. That ensured that it sat as high in the water as possible with a 3 fly cast on. Then it was just a cast of watching the end of that fly line for any movement. If it suddenly pulled away or twitched I would strike. Most of the fish that day didn’t rip the line out of your hands, which is why watching the end of the line and reacting quickly paid dividends. Hope that helps 🎣

Thanks for that explanation Rhys

I’m assuming your talking about a shop bought leader? If so, then yes and no. Yes - because you’ll gradually wear away at the tapered leader if you don’t supplement it with a few feet of independent leader. No - it can work without it but it’ll cause the issue that’s described above. If you’re snagging bottom and not moving the flies, the next step is to reduce the leader length 👍

I mention it at the start of the video :)

Any form of white yarn will suffice blackfur, I've caughton fluoro white Glo bright as well as polypropylene type materials. I don't think which type of white you choose makes a huge difference, as long as the size, profile and colour matches the food type at the time then you're good to go!

@@RhysFishes thanks for the reply I have tied a few up and will be hopefully trying them out over the weekend with this method and others 😊

Straight lining can still work. You can just change the leader set up. I used to fish a lake where fish sat at 10ft feeding on buzzer. So when straight lining a three fly cast you’d have a leader of around 24ft. Your first fly would be at 10ft, second at 16ft, third at 24ft. It’s not for the faint hearted but it was the most consistent method we used to catch fish on buzzers at depth. You could also switch a floater out for a sink tip to help get the flies down.

Thanks for the tip,defo out of ma range ,I will just enjoy the day,awesome videos and fishing keep em up.great work.

@@jamesmcinnes4290 try a single buzzer under an indicator but set the depth to where you think the fish are. That can also work and require less complexity

Snowbee xs distance New haylie floater Rio bung floater All great lines and have different purposes in my fishing

Yes I can do that in the coming weeks 👍

@@RhysFishes wow thank you very much

Thanks Oldgold. I don't have any plans to travel that far currently. How's your season going?

@@RhysFishes well thanks. Done well with green and pink apps over winter, and more natural stuff the last few weeks. Done really well with a diawl type pattern, black cock hackle tail, black organza body, white goose biot cheeks cut to about 2 mm, orange thread head. Works great straight lining, washing line or static

Celtic Blob Company Fluorocarbon. You can locate the website on google :)

Thank you Dan

New haylie fishery (on Facebook)

Just seen others had asked - Newhaylie Would you recommend? Low memory etc?

Straight as an arrow and inexpensive. That's why it's my go to these days.

@@RhysFishes thanks Rhys. Have messaged them but out of stock 😭

😂😂😂 imagine!

Partly yes. One of those fish took in very close and I doubt he would have taken the fly so confidently had I been stood up and walking around on the platform 🙂

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There’s a subtitle option available from RU-vid 🙂

Sadly it does not. All running water is club run and requires a memebership / fees or a waiting list. Lakes or small stillwaters are a norm for us and form a strong proportion of the fishing that we do in the UK (at a price). There’s some misconception where people think that these are stockies which will take a standard dog nobler or lure and take little skill to catch. But what people fail to understand is that catch and release forms a huge proportion of these successful fisheries. And by design you could be attempting to catch a fish that has wised up and been caught several times before. Blanks are regular and it isn’t a reflection of a basic anglers skill but actually because they’re fishing for pressured fish who don’t succumb easily. Sometimes you’ll watch a video and see somewhere do really well and make it look easy. That doesn’t mean it’s easy, but that the angler has worked hard to find a nuance or method that even the most wary trout will succumb to on any given day. Hope that helps 😊

@@RhysFishes I feel truly sad. You deserve better. You show genuine interest and motivation to better the techniques of fly fishing. I wish you the best.