When it all boils down setting up a loch style or river leader doesn’t have to be as complicated as it’s made out to be. I have set out below how I set up my trout leaders for both social and competition fly fishing and I hope that will provide some incite for you.
In this post I describe all the aspect of my current river fishing set up and techniques. The way I set my river fishing gear up and the way I fish has allowed me to hold my own in river sessions in Australia and overseas.
Proceeding through an orderly process as described in this post is a good way of making your fly selection for any trout river.
This is a list of flies that I know all work well for Lakes Tantangara, Eucumbene and Jindabyne.
As long as it’s not too windy the ‘fast sink lines for deep sulking or feeding trout’ system described here provides a way that you can present moving flies that may induce a strike to fish that may or may not be actively feeding but are holding in deeper water.
I guess that almost every competition fly fisher has a preference toward set ups for different fishing situations … this is mine.
I have three lines that I fish over this rod depending on conditions. A #4 weight Scientific angle trout series dry fly line, a #4 weight Cortland clear intermediate line and a new #4 weight Rio InTouch Deep 5. This last line is brand new to me but it ticks all the boxes.
Over the last few years myself and most other competition fly fishers have to differing degrees come to grips with the French leader style of fly fishing. That technique for me had evolved into fishing a 9 meter Hends Camou leader. It was a good set up but for me it had severe limitations in anything but a windless day or a day with slight winds at your back.
This is the first river fishing technique that I was introduced to and is probably the most widely used technique used by recreational fly fishers in Australia and New Zealand and the UK.
There is a reason why up stream fishing is probably the most widely used technique used by fly fishers in Australia and New Zealand and the UK – it works.
