Changes

Settled weather always refines flyfishing tackle and tactics. Early December brought an extended series of calm mornings on the lake and with them, a typical switch to fickle feeding. Three blanks-with-missed-takes in a row finally made me do something I'd been considering for weeks – switch (excuse the pun) my 'high wind' line from the Redington Dually #6 to the Primal Run #4 and set it up with just leader and lure. In the process I've not only restored my strike rate but finally, as suspected, made deep lake bed flyfishing a lot more enjoyable.

This idea had been developing for ages but it’s really been the lake focus forced by lockdowns that turned thought into experiment and finally, reality. Being a 'classic' flyfisher by inclination, I'm primarily interested in sight fishing, preferably at or near the surface, tackled up lightly and stalking each fish as close as possible, to give it a 'fair go'. So when fishing blind at depth I'm constantly