How To Fly Fishing For Trout In Winter - The Natural Approach!

[@jackroden2942]

Realy appreciate your videos Rhys! Often I will be goggling something specific and can’t find when I am looking for, then one of your videos will peak my interest and I find the info is exactly what I am after! Cheers

[@RhysFishes]

No problem Jack. Glad they were of help 🎣

[@jnerceg4332]

This is what we need right now. THANK YOU. Once again. Killed it my guy

[@paulhughes7079]

Rhys. I have learned more from you and Steve Cullen on KZbin than anything else. Thanks a lot mate, you have improved my fishing and understanding so much.

[@RhysFishes]

Great to hear paul. 👍

[@nicholasroeber]

Simply excellent, context, rational and clear practical advice - superb

[@lawrencemacd63]

A great useful video Reece 🐟🎣

[@DaiHGowerWales]

The way you bullet point your reasons is perfect and very helpful to a constant learner like me. Very well explained i am blown away by your obvious real hands on experience and knowledge.

[@enlightenedone7141]

Excellent tips Rhys!!! Thank you!!!

[@RhysFishes]

Thanks

[@weisswurstfruhstuck8523]

Great very thought through Tipps for me as a beginner it’s always amazing how versatile fly fishing really became. As a child I went a lot with my uncle and there it was just the typical dry fly fishing for trout! Now I am fishing for carp, pike and anything else I want to catch and try out there’s a method for it on your fly rod. Just need to know how but still amazes me :)

[@RhysFishes]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@kanecol2401]

Great videos for someone new to this type of fishing

[@RhysFishes]

Thank you

[@paulhughes7079]

Brilliant explanation Rhys, cheers.

[@seanbenstead7650]

After watching your video I went fishing last week at my local fishery and used nymphs all day had a 3lb spastic 2x 3.5 rainbow and a 7.5lb rainbow all on pheasant tail nymph all fished slow on a 15ft leader on single fly as fishery rules. counting down as you advised. thanks for your videos always great to watch

[@RhysFishes]

Great!

[@jamesalexander4203]

Rhys, thanks for the excellent content. As a novice fly fisher this concise content de-bunks all the jargon for me. Thanks and lets hope my catch returns improve, tight lines, JA

[@admanzw]

Great video, thanks for taking the time to pass your knowledge along.

[@barr1888]

Thanks Rhys very informative

[@chriswright2135]

Brilliant as always Rhys love that 👍👍👍

[@ozmorsley]

Great video. Really helps watching these, you give so much simple but effective advice ......it's so helpful to understand the basic set ups for each season. Just got into fly fishing this summer and have been watching many of your helpful videos. Subscribed :)

[@RhysFishes]

Thanks!

[@dekacoombe4595]

Loving your channel , I’m just trying to get back into fly fishing after about 18 year off so your tip and advice are coming in handy , cheers , atb Deka 👍🏻😎

[@lindsayiflyfish]

Great info Rhys, well presented.

[@mikejames663]

Excellent information, as usual.

[@johnhoggard4523]

Great video and I’ll try your suggestion next Friday when I’m fishing with my 2 best mates.

[@RhysFishes]

Thanks john

[@stevenqueen8913]

Another great video mate.

[@hotpoker4212]

Greetings from the Emerald Isle,🇮🇪🇮🇪 great advice and videos, KP m coming,

[@simonpeters5794]

Great work Rhys, by far the best teaching videos out there and so nice that they are UK based rather than stateside. They have helped me get a better understanding of Fly fishing - Thanks

[@flyfishingbandit9394]

Top man Rhys appreciated as per 🎣

[@psychomart]

As always brilliant, keep em coming

[@shemmings795]

great video mate keep them coming. tight lines

[@ragozyt1701]

i love your content mate! much love from Norway :)

[@RhysFishes]

cheers!

[@ragozyt1701]

@@RhysFishes lastly wil the shrimp flie be effective when it comes to trouts in this season?

[@graymain]

Awsome advice Rhys learning alot from you :)

[@RhysFishes]

Thanks James 👍

[@severemalkie]

Great stuff as always

[@barrygrey5119]

Great content yet again. We getting another livestream soon?

[@RhysFishes]

Feb 👍

[@barrygrey5119]

@@RhysFishes nice 1 cant wait!

[@kmrrose8112]

I have watched all of your videos and although I have been fly fishing for many years , I really enjoy watching them. Great content Rhys and always full of good advice and tactics etc. Keep up the great videos

[@leonoconnor9019]

Thanks rhys for the fantastic tips must confess I have never hooked up with a buzzer / or blood worm hoping to change this soon, but I did catch useing the booby on the bottom, my first booby catch, thanks,

[@johnpinky2329]

Nice video mate when will there be another fishing competition with Jeremy

[@RhysFishes]

It's in the pipeline John

[@oldgold5848]

As a side method.... particularly if you can't fish boobies, a foam backed shrimp on a sinking line and shortish leader can work well when it is cold and the fish are lethargic and deep....

[@RhysFishes]

Especially useful on the likes of grafham too 👍

[@hankvana2149]

Good information as always Rhys! Thanks for that! I've noticed that fish fry are are rarely mentioned as a food source and wondered about that. Is that because the high density of large trout in a fishery quickly eat all the fry leaving only insects to forage on? In our local lakes fry and small fish comprise 75% or more of forage for the predators (bass, walleye and pike) and 3 to 6 inch streamers (lures) are very effective. Just curious.

[@RhysFishes]

For the uk small stillwaters, in around 80% of the lakes I fish there is no population of smaller fish for trout to predate on, so they don’t have that available food source. And thus we rarely employ tactics that replicate those. On larger stillwaters it’s more common with the October period being well known as fry bashing season. That’s largely because some of our late lakes hold a bountiful supply of roach, perch, minnow, Dace etc… that allow the trout to stock up on in readiness for winter

[@oliversmith3771]

Awesome vidio once again. What rods and reel set ups do you have out of interest? Or if its loads what are your main set ups?

[@oliversmith3771]

Oh I've just seen you use the shakespeare sigma and an airflow switch. I'm looking at getting another cheep set up as I have a greys gr60 and a favo reel (spools are about £60 I think) What cheap set up would you recomend? Cheers

[@RhysFishes]

A sigma rod and airflo switch reel for cost is hard to look past 👍

[@oliversmith3771]

@@RhysFishes thank you, I've seen shakespeare also do an agility 2 rod... whats the difference between agility 2 and and the sigma supra? Cheers

[@ethanrush4562]

great video well done 👍. Do you think that a faster action rod is a better choice than a medium fast action rod for getting a longer distance more easily?

[@RhysFishes]

Really dependant on your casting style. Faster action rods are generally better for heavy sinking lines 👍

[@ethanrush4562]

@@RhysFishes thankyou that is very useful to me Tight lines x🎣

[@davidgregg6703]

Already mate , I don’t usually fish lakes only in winter when the river season is over, ive a spare reel and can’t decide to put a sinking line or intermediate on it, what do u reckon ?

[@rhyspercey3880]

You should do a comp with your dad. One fished natural one lures and see who wins

[@RhysFishes]

Good idea

[@Scarletsb0y]

Rhys we don't live in the UK ;-)

[@sledgebikes2896]

Another great video. On top off Ethan R,s question, I fish big lakes and use a med-fast 7-8WT 9'6/10ft rod and its great for distance and lures in windy conditions, but it can get heavy by the end of the day... I'm looking at maybe going down to a fast 5WT 9'6/10FT for the days when we have better conditions, will I still get a good distance with a fast #5 10FT?

[@joshwood1699]

9ft 9inch 6 weight Vision Stillmaniac would be perfect for you want mate

[@sledgebikes2896]

@@joshwood1699 I have been looking them... thank you, you have made my mind up... just don't tell the wife :-)

[@RhysFishes]

Josh has reccomended a rod that i've been using last year and i'd agree. A 5wt on large resevoirs would work but would be a steep dropdown and wouldnt be a tool for distance. A 6wt stillamaniac hits that sweetspot between gentleness and distance

[@sledgebikes2896]

@@RhysFishes Thank you so much for your advice, the stillamaniac seems to get a lot of good recommendations, I'm on board have now got one on order, thanks again.

[@joseffdavies9354]

What do you think is the best fly to use when the season opens on clywedog?

[@RhysFishes]

Too many flies to cover different situations. Boobies early on though 👍

[@Trickshorts]

How did you know I’m going fishing tomorrow 🧐🥷🏼

[@WEEGIMEDIA]

Hi Rhys so a local small still water I fish is gin clear and about five to six foot deep both small lakes filled with stocky’s as it’s a fishery to . What technique would you use ? Bung, long leader to keep the fly away from fly line, small and slow etc ? Any pointers much appreciated and thanks for your channel 👍

[@RhysFishes]

There are 3 reasons that I think fish take a fly: Aggression (Lures), Feeding (Nymphs,buzzers,dries), Curiosity (Bung). On any given day a fish will be more susceptible to 1 of the 3 methods above. It's just a case of working out which at your fishery. Start in the order described above and eventually you'll crack it!

[@WEEGIMEDIA]

@@RhysFishes thank you for getting back to me much appreciated.

[@roydudley4542]

Hi Rhys any chance you can help me get some shimmer worms?

[@RhysFishes]

Drop me a private message roy 👍

[@paulpryce1961]

Hi rhys just started fly fishing wondering if using sinking polyleader is fine for trout in a fishery if i dont have sinking line only floating?

[@RhysFishes]

Hi paul, if that's all you have then it can work. The line will act more link a sink tip rather than a straight through sinking line. Which can affect how the flies fish i.e the flies will rise and fall based on your retrieve as oppose to travelling on an evening plain in line the depth of the sinking line. You can pick up sinking lines dirt cheap at this stage and I would reccomend you pick up a fast intermediate too 👍

[@ludopolleunis4559]

for some reason, i cannot open the video how to fish the bung....anyone else has this problem ?

[@RhysFishes]

Try this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/majHg4JpjJipjtk

[@markjones8025]

who was the one viewer who put a thumbs down??

[@jamesalexander4203]

It had to be a “typo” - how could any angler not enjoy such insightful content...