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Here's another late SL FP, I think I've shifted time zones! It's been a long weekend, hosting a MCI prep course with Erno here in Hungary. Here's a link to the flycasting definitions as promised to Zeka.

Last week I managed to miss Davy's page while in Croatia, so here that is today. Pictures from the weekend I'll upload later!
Cheers, Paul

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Sorry l missed out last week guys, frankly l forgot all about it, way to much fishing pressure l guess and what a past two weeks it has been dealing with the continued heat and humidity out there.

On the other hand early morning as the fog still hangs over the river the Brown trout fishing has been no less than awesome, at least for my customers, many of which are now tuned in to the traditions of wet fly fishing which is just about in my opinion one of if not the most deadly of ways to encourage the spotted beauties to take the fly, providing of course you have the right flies and you present them in the right manner, which is as we all know the name of the game. And the prevailing conditions are good for it to happen.

Darn wish l could get out there for some time to myself, not for a while the way it is looking.

Never ceases to amaze me that from zones the majority would ignore and often as not you cannot see them as they merge so well into the background, all of a sudden you see the rush of the trout to take the fly when you least expect it. I tell many of my clients who look stupid at me when l tell them to cast to a given direction over gravel bars and to them worthless water that odds are a fish is there but you cannot see it and providing it is not aware of our presence we have a good chance to catch one, it works, end of story, confidence l guess is the name of the game.

Regarding the matter of fly lines. In my opinion the most productive line to use is without a doubt the slime line, in fact l would highly recommend the Rio Aqualux, it way beats a dry line due to the fact it will not of course cause shadow and surface disturbance, keeps the flies well down and provides that all important rise to the surface of the droppers in a very different manner to a dry line. Provided your techniques are good and more to the point you read water flow rates and determine from that relative angles of presentation as it matters big time.

Now that is not to say l disregard the floater as it also has a place no doubt of that, more so when fish are looking for bugs on the surface, likewise evening periods. Now l make these statements based on the fact that l have seen and caught myself, countless numbers of river browns. And l guess after years of doing it have great confidence in the knowledge of the Brown trout's habits.

It's not a stereotyped approach far from that, it's one based on 1000s of hours on the water simple as that and a proven one. I would add here also that the slime line should not be dismissed when there is surface activity for due to its weight it provides the perfect means of control and hang to maintain and animate flies both up stream to across and downstream for med range presentations. Also my first choice when having to deal with adverse winds when a floater lessons overall control. Wet fly fishing that is. Few might not consider this either, obtain this line in 2 and 3 wts you will be surprised what you will be able to do with it when using 3/4 wt rods.

At any rate it is the time that Browns start the upstream migration to the spawning grounds, often as not you will likely find them in packs or at least a number of them in close vicinity of each other. I also know that they tend to become a little more aggressive at this time as they move from station to station and retain those territorial instincts to lesser forms of life. A time of the season l greatly look forward to, that's for sure.

One little tip here before l hit the sack, mini muddlers can be deadly in combination with other traditionals. Next week l will post some of my own personal DW favorites.

Tight lines all,
DW.

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