Tweeddale today.

[seddo]

Arrived at a pretty breezy Tweeddale this morning although the forecast was for 2/3 mph wind, there again we are talking about Twedddale which is breezy at the best of times.
FISHING
First cast on the middle lake using a size 16 black buzzer and was rewarded with a cracking rainbow approx weighing 8/9lb, great shape and with a spade of a tail.
First cast for my mate Ronnie and FISH ON, another fine rainbow C/R, this looked like the days fishing was going to be exceptional, WRONG neither of us had another knock all day.
Most of the anglers on the lake were finding the going hard although some of the regulars had C/R upto five fish or so using orange blobs on the dropper with a weighted fly on the point.
As we packed up for the day quite a few fish started topping so I reckon a few more fish will be caught before the day is done.
As always, we enjoyed our day and are looking forward to our next trip up North.

Cheers

seddo

[mick dunn]

Well done Sless. The black buzzer - is this a surface fly. I can never figure out when to put these on. What size leader did you have for a fish that big. I only use max 6-8lb. Lost a good one at Derwent week or so back when the knot slipped on my leader where i had my other two flys on.
Cheers Mick.

[dicky mint]

mick, the 'buzza' is the larvae stage in the life cycle of the midge. these drift about in the water currents waiting for the right conditions to (be it time of day,air pressure, temperature etc) head to the surface and hatch out into the adult fly. can be found at any depth of water really, just above the lake bed or in the surface film when hatching. (a nar, a bore me self sometimes) to start out i like to fish buzza's in teams of 3 with the heavist on point, gradually getting lighter/smaller as you come up ya leader. just gives you a bit of an idea as to the depth tha feeding, and you can sort ya leader/ tactics to suit. if theres a lot of surface activity and its not obvious what tha feeding on ,theres a good chance tha taking the buzza as it hatches. good artificials for this would be a cdc shipmans or cdc emerger.
you'll be fine with ya 6-8lb line on most waters, you could land a pig on that with a bit of patience you could even go down to 4lb on some stillwaters where tha's a lot of c&r, they tend to become a bit hook shy when they've been pulled out a couple of times. 4lb or even less for ya dry fly on stillwaters and the rivers
soz for givin it big licks mick but tha's nowt on the telly lol

[Charlie_Thompson]

Very informative minty thanks - I've never had a fish on buzzer yet although I admit a buzzer is often the last type of fly I'll try. If anyones interested have a look at some of the entries into the buzzer comp on flyforums.co.uk you might have to rake around a bit to find it but there's some amazing examples of what fly tiers can do with out loads of fluffy stuff. Amazing. Thread started by Scratch I think if you search by poster.

[seddo]

Hi Mick, I think Dicky Mint covered most of the aspects of buzzers.
Yesterday I was using a team of three buzzers on 4lb flurocarbon leader, a size 12 on the point followed by a size14 and size16 on the droppers, there was a fair breeze on the water and this was excellant for drifting my set-up.
Sometimes the fish will pick up your flies and hook themselves but other times you really have to concentrate as offers can easily be missed.
Anyway Mick, buzzer fishing is great and there are a few methods you can try ie, washing line, suspended from CDCs, Newzealand Dropper style, using a variety of line densities and a host of other methods.
Ask questions and watch other anglers fishing buzzers, you can pick up a host of information, its not the first time I have had conversations without knowing I have been talking to international anglers.

all the best

seddo ( not sless )

[mick dunn]

Cheers Seddo. Like you say the more you go up fishing and watching other anglers the more you pick up.
Couple of months ago there was a couple of lads using floating dry fly. Fish were coming up for them and pow the lads were striking and catching.
Tried it myself and really enjoyed it. Very tense when watching the fly blow slowly over the surface.

Mick.