Stillwater Fly Fishing Tactics: Fishing Snake Flies with Rob Edmunds

In this video, Fulling Mill Signature Rob Edmunds walks us through a morning session on Draycote water fishing snake flies for trout. This is an especially effective tactic for the front and back end of the fly fishing season on stillwaters, but can also produce throughout the year. If you're looking to up your game while out fly fishing stillwaters for trout this year, there are some excellent tips from Rob in here. He covers things like presentation, retrieve, fly selection, leader setup, and a whole lot more!

Rob Edmunds is a stillwater and reservoir fishing expert. He began fly-fishing at just 4 years old and match fishing soon became his primary focus after first representing England at just 16 years of age. Rob has won nine European titles both individually and as part of a team. He's also an avid fly tyer, and is responsible for many of the popular patterns we now take for granted (Nemo, Tequila Blob, Traffic Light Buzzer, Snake Booby etc.). In recent years his focus has shifted slightly to targeting specimen trout. As such, he's currently the only person to have ever caught at least 1 "double figure trout" from all 4 of the Anglian Water Reservoirs. Needless to say, when it comes to stillwaters Rob is a wealth of knowledge!

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Discussing conditions after arriving at Draycote Water
01:40 Rigging up for two snake flies
04:46 Starting in deep water
05:24 Fishing the hang
06:55 The roly poly retrieve for snake flies
08:25 Mixing up your retrieves
10:20 How to set up your drogue
12:15 Changing your fly line
14:35 Casting in the wind
16:05 Changing locations
16:42 Catching a fish on the black snake
18:12 Changing retrieve speed to induce a take
18:53 Keep it simple to catch fish

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