After a wet spring, it was great to get out fishing for wild brown trout on the Welsh Dee and this post highlights a short…
Wet Fly Fishing Video from a trip to The Glyndwr Preserve on the Welsh Dee
It was a mild day but I didn’t spot flies coming off the river. Therefore, without a fly hatch, I decided to fish one of my default team of wet flies for spring on a 9ft 5# Redington fly rod loaded with a floating line. The wet flies were space 3ft apart on a 3lbs copolymer leader (point: #14 large dark olive nymph, middle dropper: #14 black hopper; top dropper: #14 pearly butt Waterhen Bloa)
Day tickets to fish this beat of the Welsh Dee near Llangollen can be obtained from THE FISHING PASSPORT scheme. The Glyndwr Preserve covers 2.5 miles of double-bank river Dee fishing in the beautiful Llangollen valley. It holds a good head of wild brown trout and has some of the best grayling fishing in the UK.
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Tight Lines, Andrew
Hi Andrew, as always it is a pleasure to watch your posts and especially so this time as you showed some good close ups of the flies being used as well as a good narrative on the leader set up.
I notice that when using wets you fish across and down. Do you ever fish them up-stream or is the water too fast?
I have tied up all the patterns you have given details of in your posts and all are good.
Many thanks for all you do to improve us all in the world of fly fishing. Iain.
Hi Iain,
Often on the Dee across and down is the only way to cover areas on the far bank where fish lie. I do fish them upstream on a short line and it’s very effective especially when fishing up into the head of pools. Will have to do a video on that.
Tight lines, Andrew