traditional

By Neil Grose | Loch style is a very old and traditional British method of fly fishing on lakes [or lochs].

It is a boat-based technique and is basically an extremely effective way of covering plenty of water — a searching method.

It isn’t new at all in Tasmanian waters; David Scholes wrote about it in his first book in the early 1960s, Don Gilmour wrote about in on Penstock Lagoon in its hey day, and plenty of others just got on with it without any fuss or bother.

It involves fishing a team of flies {traditionally wet flies} downwind from a drifting boat.

The Scots, Irish and English will use up to six flies at a time — here in Australia, we are restricted to three, which is plenty

Short casts are the order of the day, simply cast downwind and teased back to the angler. At the final part of the retrieve the rod is lifted and the ‘bob’ fly is dibbled across the surface.

The majority of takes come to the bob fly, however the middle and point flies also take plenty of fish.

Neil will be writing more on the subject in the near future.

{ 0 comments }