Fly Fishing Weedy water

As a professional fishing guide I often here anglers complaining of extensive weed growth during the height of summer. This seems to be largely due to weed catching the line, flies and in some areas preventing us from fishing the way we usually do.

That last statement "preventing us from fishing the way we usually do" is the key to improving your catch rate during summer! No matter what species you fly fish for, their food will live/shelter in and around weedbeds at this time of year. Based on this guess where the fish are?

Correct patrolling the weedbeds picking of food items as they go. By selecting the correct flies and lines, then fishing them around and over these fish holding meccas your catch rate will sore.

Using this philosophy I have caught various species of trout plus pike, perch, carp, chub, grayling and barbel consistently with fly fishing techniques.

If you would like to learn how to catch more fish and improve your fly fishing, we still have a few places remaining for our July and August courses. For further information see our summer fly fishing courses.

Tight Lines

Steve