Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Main Discussion Area => Topic started by: Iain Cameron on 19/11/2013 at 18:59
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been enjoying reading this series of blogs from Jim Williams re winter grayling-ing
http://www.fishinglessons.co.uk/blog/category/grayling-fishing-2/page/8/
some lovely pics - I'm most intrigued by the rig on this page, showing split shot on a dropper roller. I'm intrigued about how that one looks.
For context, I used a piece of hi-tech "trapped air" kit when bugging last saturday, so I'm currently open to bizarreness on the end of the fly line :-)
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Looks a bit like the 'non tangle' rig in this months FF&FT
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Looks a bit like the 'non tangle' rig in this months FF&FT
Aye, I'd been thinking that too, but it's hard to see from the photo.
If you didn't see the mag, the rig in FFFT used a little riverge brand leader ring sliding up and down, stopped by a glass bead above a water knot that joined tippet length to leader. The dropper was tied to the ring.
Yup, all inspired by sea fishing!
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hey Iain,
it's (or maybe was) made by Hends. it seems they're not allowed in comps and they're not-too-easy to find nowadays.
the bead idea described above should work just as well. :z16
(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362_19_11_13_11_29_44.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=1453)
marc
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it's (or maybe was) made by Hends....
hi Marc - excellent, thanks. I thought you might know, being such a fan of the grayling....
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it doesn't say graything on the package... :z7
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...or you could just use a piece of spare nylon as per the coarse anglers good old swanshot ledger.
I've used this for grayling with no probs and no fiddling with leader rings/dropper rollers etc.
(No need for the stop-shots btw, you can use a surgeons knot/stop knot instead).
W.
(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1154_20_11_13_10_54_21.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=1454)
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or you can add an extra dropper an add the shot to that...
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or you can add an extra dropper an add the shot to that...
hi Will
aye, I do have a wee tub of split shot, and had sketched a couple of ways of rigging up. Hadn't thought of the loop of nylon - simple, obvious, and workable. Hoping to get out on Saturday for a few casts. Don't really do much bugging/heavy nymphing, so it's interesting learning how to lob lead weights!
cheers
iain
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Take a normal leader with 2 droppers, place a fly on the point, a split shot on the first dropper and a fly on the top dropper. If the split shot snags, it should pull straight off. This rig will keep the flies about 3-6 inches off the bottom.
Another version is to replace the point fly with a split shot and have flies on the droppers. This is basically a rig called a “drop shot”. Plenty on the web about this rig. Only difference is, the coarse boys fish it static and “jiggle” the lure in a spot before moving it on. It is used in rivers for Perch etc.
Failing the above, why not use a very heavy tungsten beaded fly as per our European friends?
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Take a normal leader with 2 droppers...
... 2 droppers? normal!? that's no normal! :-)
nice idea about the weight in the middle position, though I'd probably prefer a heavy fly there, I can see the benefits if snagged up and just losing the shot.
got some new tungsten beads today in the post.