Which flies for Sutherland

[scottish-loch-lad]

Ill have a look. thanks

[deergravy]

Hi Chris,
I fish Assynt every year, in late june and again in september.
My short list of flies would be;
for dry fly fishing-
Deer Hair Sedge, #10, dark claret body
Deer hair Emerger #10 olive body- indispensible if there's mayfly about
Grey duster/snowshoe emerger/griffiths gnat - something like that if they're rising to small stuff

Wets
Loch Ordie - top dropper trout magnet
I can't honestly recommend any other specific wet fly, pennels, silver invictas, endrick spiders, kates, all good but the trout go for the Ordie 8 times out of 10.

My first approach is, usually, dry fly - I don't pull wets unless I have to.(which I do, often)

Dave

[scottish-loch-lad]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the heads up! I liked your last sentence.

Those flies are some i will be adding to my box. I havent used Dries that much really but ill build up my confidence with them in the coming weeks/months.

The Ordie is definately one i will be getting

Chris

[Fishtales]

Don't overload yourself with flies, you will only spend time changing from one to the other and never finding one that catches consistently for you.

Concentrate on a few different styles of dry, wet, bushy and nymph. Get a couple of different sizes say #12 and#14 and depending on the pattern #10 or #16 (#10 being the wets/bushy and the #16 the dries).

Don't go for fancy dries, like parachute or klinks etc., just now. Go for the deer hair sedges, hackle dries and even oil some of the bushy wets to float as these can be left static on the surface or pulled as wake flies.

For wet flies, other than the bushy types like kates and ordies, go for winged flies like greenwell, iron blue dun, invicta, etc. and fish them on the middle dropper if you are fishing three flies or on the tail if two. For nymphs I would go for hairy types like the gold ribbed hairs ear, freshwater shrimp and maybe a few buzzer types.

Concentrate on your fishing, presentation and retrieve, and not the inside of your fly box. You are there to enjoy the fishing not get frustrated over what fly to try next

[scottish-loch-lad]

cheers guys, ill have a look through the info and links later and get cracking with a wee fly box of a few rather than getting 10 of everything and never using half of them

[Wildfisher]

Or which flies worked best in the end.

[scottish-loch-lad]

The flies that have worked best for me, certainly since fishing with some of the dry specialists are:

1. Deer hair emerger- they always seem to get a rise even when they arent showing

2. Parachute adams- same

Top and fast:

1. Muddler skating around ginked up

Wet:

1. Green Peter

2. Grouse and Claret



The Nylon I like best is the fullen Mill flouro. Needs to be over 6lb some places but 4lb is good on most, especially for dries

[Fishtales]

Chris

The Green Peter was always one that came up in conversations with a lot of hill loch fishers, although I have never used it The Mallard and Claret was always a good standby fly for lochs. I have also found that any fly causing a disturbance on the surface tends to bring fish up from the depths

[Part-time]

I'm still relatively new to fishing the Assynt area but to date my best fly has been the CDC&Elk by a long way; either fished singly as a dry fly or on a wet fly cast on the top dropper. Olive Dabbler has also done well.

John