Salt Water Fly Fishing

[RobAdair]

Met up with the administrator and another new member of the United Kingdom Sal****er Fly Fishing Forum today at a mark in North Yorkshire and had an absolutely cracking day.

As well as the actual fishing, we got to try out some mouth watering sal****er gear. Although we blanked this time, we all had a cracking day and I\'m well and truly converted. The next session is already being planned and there\'s also a weekend of fishing being organised at the back end of September (within 1.5 hours drive of the NE )

Here\'s the catch(less) report from Steves website:

http://ukswff.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187

[Edited on 16/7/2006 by RobAdair]

[Davey.adair]

Nice one kid, but I thought you were going down there yesterday, wish I had known, I\'d have knocked you up yesterday morning, could have done with a hand on the pier and a bit craic

[sless]

have a look at these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&item=230006910439&rd =1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

[RobAdair]

Been tying me own for a few weeks now mate.

Have it on good authority that pink/white sparse clousers, charteruse/white sandeels and bright coloured crazy charlies (pink, yellow, red, red and yellow)are all that\'s needed (unless you want bread flies for mullet or snake flies for flatties that is :P )

[Stuey]

Sounds like a good trip out Rob. I\'m just waiting for some SWFF materials so that I can tie up some flies befre venturing out into the surf. Been trout fishing for 14 yrs but fancy a dabble in the salt now. Will be planning a mid week trip so that its nice and quiet.

cheers

Stu

[mark]

take some smaller more conventional stuff as well. I\'ve found that sometimes the big flashy salt water lures do nowt, but whack on something littler and they go nuts

I always have a few silver blue & teal, baltic specials, and something dawsons olive ish

sizes 4 to 10

nee good on the beach mind! but when its calm among the rocks they do alright

[RobAdair]

Get yourself signed up to UKSWFF then Stuey. We need to build up the membership here in the NE (there\'s only 5 of us at the minute out of 150+ members). They\'re a great bunch of lads and you\'ll learn more in one days fishing with them than years of \"hit and miss\" sussing out what flies at what mark at what time of day at what state of tide etc etc.
They\'re keen to recruit new members and don\'t keep good marks and fly patterns to themselves once you have shown yourself to be keen and trustworthy, so you\'ll learn a lot in no time at all.

There is a conclave about to be planned for the end of September right here in the NE

[MickA]

Got me interested here Rob. Been looking for a reason to get the old fly rod out the cupboard. I refuse to pay the silly money thats being charged now to go fishing on the trout puddles, but thinking about it there\'s is a lot of good areas for shot witht he fly right on the doorstep (Marsden 1st, 2nd and even 3rd bays spring to mind straight away).

What sort of lines you using, full wf or shooting heads (two lines for the price of 1 dt line), fast/slow sink or intermediate.

Seems a canny site the ukswff site. I\'ll have a good look when got a bit more time.

[mark]

just signed up, noticed your \'what materials post\'

you bought any yet, PM if you haven\'t and I\'ll stick a some stuff in the post. I\'ve got mountains of materials, far more than I\'ll ever get around to tying

let me know if you need a vice as well

[snatcher]

I know that \"Hairyscotsman\"(from ANother forum) had a good day on the fly with Ian Burrett two weeks ago. He was taking pollack to 8lb on fast sinking lines and I think Clousers were the killing patterns. Luce Bay/Mull of Galloway does lend itself to this kind of fishing.

Ian had some guys from Sea Angler on his boat last month and they broke some world records.

Best check on his website for the full details,I assume it is on now

[RobAdair]

The lads I\'ve fished with used to use WF Intermediate or sinking 90% of the time, WF floating 10% of the time, all depended on where they were fishing and what they were fishing with/for. They now recommend changing to a sink tip which would cover both the intermediate and the sinking lines (a heavy clouser will pull the line to the bottom if left to sink whereas a more bouyant pattern will stay in the top layers of the water if stripped straight away). Cortland and Greys were both mentioned.

Also, as they all fish flies in the 2-6 hook size range, they tend to just use a 4ft fluoro leader of 12-15lb straight through as there is no issues with turning a large fly over.

You\'re dead right about the marks as well Mick, we\'ve got some great (virtually unfished) parts of the coast on our doorstep that just scream \"fish\"