The Airflo Story

The Airflo Story is one of my favorite fishing videos of 2013! I've always been interested in how fly lines are made and this video has cleared a few things up. Have a watch and see for yourself.

Garnfrwdd Sunday 7th April 2013

Visited Garnfrwdd again today and when we arrived it looked like it was going to be a good day. We had all agreed that today was gona be a pleasure day and not fish our league. the morning was good nice weather a little breeze and fish were coming to the net. I told myself last night that I was gona try different methods as im feed up of pulling lures although I love lure fishing it has started to become a little boring and I need to perfect my skills in the different methods. After looking at the Garnfrwdd facebook page the other night (checking out a photo of a big brown that was caught) I looked at the fishery reports and I could see that people have been having some good top of the water action, and the olives have sarted to hatch. So my next mission was to tie some olive dry flies so I looked on google and the blogs that i follow i found a few patterns I like but the one I liked was form terry (taffdiaries.wordpress.com) it was actually an olive cdc emerger pattern so I knocked a few up ready for our trip today and low and behold the little buggers caught a few fish today. Me Dai Alan and sprog managed to land over 50 fish between us today don't really know the exact number but we all had a good day. There was also a monster rainbow landed today if I had to guess how heavy it was I would say around 17/18lb and I think that is a garnfrwdd rainbow record. It goes to show how healthy the lake is supporting all these big fish. I think I had around 14/15 fish today and they were spread out all over the lake some on buzzers some on dries and some on the nymphs and I caught on maybe two on the lure. I know I know I did say that I was gona try and not use lues today but I couldn't help myself. Here are the patterns that caught.

MY BUZZERS ADDICTION

Since I started fishing when I was in my early teens things have changed dramatically everything from tackle right through to the tying materials and methods. Since I got back into fishing a couple of years ago after a number of years off I could not believe how much they have actually change. Over the years gone by I have always tied all my flies and one type of fly that has become very popular with the trout angler is the buzzer pattern. Now that is one area which I have struggled to get on with Since I got back into fishing ive started to fish the buzzer a lot and Ive always bought them and knew that I had to improve my tying skills and knuckle down and tie them myself. Now when I started to fish the buzzers I always found it hard to find a good supplier of quality home tied buzzers UNTIL I stumbled across a fella selling them on EBAY. Now Kahn has become a friend of mine and we have a chat now and again and keep in touch as often as we can. So if like me you cant tie buzzers and you want quality then this is the guy you should try out and I can tell you now that you wont be disappointed as I have caught loads of fish on his flies. Seeing the quality of kahns buzzers has really spured me on into tying my own. The first attempts I have to say where shocking and they didn't even get a coat of varnish they were cut up straight away, But after a few more attempts I was starting to get the hang of them. Here are a few of mine and Khans buzzers The first 4 pictures are the ones I have tied over the last couple of days and the last 3 are from Kahn.