Trout Fisherman 511 (Digital Sampler)

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ISSUE 511

Phil Dixon's tips for summer

CATCH ON TERRESTRIALS

Fish the fall!

SMALL WATERS

GO STALKING Avington's rise to form

WHERE TO FISH

PIKE ON FLY

Stunning fish from Holland

FISHERY FOCUS

TACKLE

RESCOBIE LOCH GEAR ON TEST Summer hotspots & flies

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Contents

BE INSPIRED

58 How to...

COVER STORY In his 90th year, actor Bernard Cribbins is honoured for his services to angling

62 Tackle advice

TACTICS

FLY-TYING

TF visits this iconic small stillwater which has undergone a recent makeover

Step-by-step to an easy Olive dry fly

Cover image by: Peter Gathercole

6 Well done Mr Cribbins

10 All-action Avington COVER STORY

15 There’s always a way

Overcoming shallow water and sunny conditions at Tullich Fishery in Aberdeenshire

20 Living in the shadows

OFFERS 46 Subscription offer

Mike Thrussell targets the dark water drop-offs at Llyn Alwen in North Wales

26 Staying afloat

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76 Reader offer

32 Dutch doubles

Get a Storafly box and 200 assorted flies for only £39.99 – a saving of £115!

COVER STORY

Float-tubing tactics at Thrybergh near

Matt Roberts goes tubing in Holland to catch huge pike on fly COVER STORY

37 They’re on the hoglouse!

If you think sport at Grafham revolves around shrimp and buzzers – think again COVER STORY

FOCUS ON...

42 The olive hatch

To fish the fly correctly you must know its behaviour

WHERE TO FISH

66 Flybox fillers

Russ Symons ties a highly effective Squirrel Nymph

70 Fastmail flies of the month Six top patterns to try this summer

72 Flymasters

Peter Gathercole judges your flies tied to tempt daphnia-feeding trout and sets a new challenge

TACKLE 77 New gear

COVER STORY Robbie Winram reviews the latest gear including rods, waders and fly boxes

82 Fly-tying products

Tying with Scruffy Dubbing, coloured resins and fluorescent floss

OPINION & NEWS 84 News

What’s hot and who caught what?

86 Letters

Trout Fisherman readers have their say

89 Airflo Spring Invitational

52 Free fishing on the Itchen

90 Troutmasters

Summer hotspots at Rescobie Loch

You can fish a free stretch of this world famous river in Winchester

ADVICE

TF’s experts answer your questions on improving catch rate in a rise and coping with a caenis hatch

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63 No-hackle Dun

50 Spotlight on...

54 Advice squad

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY

Simon Kidd advises on fishing vest choices

88 Cockwill

COVER STORY

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Catch with terrestrials

47 UK waters

Four top waters to visit this month

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COVER STORY

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Peter embarks on a new chapter in life Results and tactics from this inaugural competition Are you among this month’s badge winners?

95 Match news

The 2018 Spring Loch-style Home International

98 Wading in

Jeff Prest examines where stillwaters might be heading in the future

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THIS MONTH’S WINNER

A wild brown taken on a Dunkeld in a big wave on Loch Doon.

Sent in by Robert Reid

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Well done MR CRIBBINS

Now in his 90th year, actor and all-round entertainer Bernard Cribbins is honoured by the great and the good of our sport for his services to angling...

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BE INSPIRE D TF honour s of angling’s one tr gentlemen ue

Bernard hooks a trout at Dever with his wife Gillian looking on.

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Words: Russell Hill Pictures: Peter Gathercole

All-action AVINGTON

One of the most iconic small waters in the UK has undergone a makeover with the promise of more improvements to come...

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TACTICS Stalking

fish get your pu will ls rate racing e

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TACTICS SMALL STILLWATERS Words & pictures: Jeffrey Prest

There’s always a way...

Shallow water, shifting winds and brilliant sunshine, yet still Peter Cockwill found a way to prevail at a beautiful Aberdeenshire fishery...

Peter casts against Tullich’s stunning mountain vista.

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TACTICS RESERVOIRS Words: Phil Dixon Pictures: Peter Gathercole

Marrowspoons packed full of hoglouse is not something we see everyday.

Going the WHOLE HOG

We tend to think that trout food at Grafham revolves around shrimp and buzzers.

Phil Dixon finds them feasting on hoglouse... www.troutfisherman.co.uk

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TACTICS RESERVOIRS Words & pictures: Mike Thrussell

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Mike Thrussell releases a rainbow taken from Llyn Alwen’s drop-off.

Living in the SHADOWS

Mike Thrussell and son fish the darker water drop-offs at Llyn Alwen, North Wales www.troutfisherman.co.uk

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TACTICS RESERVOIRS Words & pictures: Jeffrey Prest

STAYING AFLOAT

Two anglers (and their catch) make a compelling case for keeping a South Yorkshire reservoir alive for fly-fishing...

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Paul James took this fine Thrybergh rainbow in front of the dam.

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TACTICS PIKE ON FLY Words & pictures: Matt Roberts

Dutch DOUBLES

The terrain might be flat in the Netherlands but the pike can be much more lumpy. Matt Roberts takes the ‘tube’ to get amongst them...

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Time tIoT! TUcloBseE to the fish Get

Edwin Kerssies shows why he was christened ‘The Pikemaster’...

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