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RIVER TACTICS

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ISSUE 528

Autumn

FIGHTS Methods you need for late-season fish RESERVOIRS

WHERE TO FISH

DESTINATIONS

FLY-TYING

Iain Barr's late season tips

Autumn hotspots & flies

Enjoy tough battles on fly

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Contents I SS U E 528

Cover image by Peter Gathercole

BE INSPIRED

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6 Your first

Readers share stories of their fly-fishing ‘firsts’

TACTICS

ADVICE

58 Advice squad

TF’s experts answer your questions on feeding depths and match fishing

62 How to...

8 Go with the flow

Understand rivers with expert Paul Procter

Steve Cullen’s indepth guide to fish location on rivers during low water COVER STORY

FLY-TYING

15 Start salmon fishing

67 The Popper Minkie

Jeff Prest visits the ideal place to begin – the Dunkeld House Hotel beat on the River Tay

Follow Peter Gathercole’s step-by-step

70 Flybox fillers

20 Grafham on form

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After a dull 2018 season, the Cambridgeshire venue is back on form, as Iain Barr discovers COVER STORY

26 Goldenloch

Jeff Prest learns about autumn tactics at this Scottish small water

COVER STORY

Russ Symons ties a Quill Emerger

74 Flymasters

Peter Gathercole judges your wet and nymphstyle Corixa entries and sets a new challenge

TACKLE

79 Gear on test

30 Fry feeders

Robbie Winram reviews new rods, leader material, a waterproof jacket and more...

Russ Symons tackles the hungry rainbows at his local Wimbleball Reservoir

83 Fly-tying products

34 All hell breaks loose

Peter Cockwill puts stalking tactics to the test at clear water Chalk Springs fishery

Synthetic tapered biots plus two useful tools

COVER STORY

FOCUS ON...

OFFERS 73 Subscription offer

40 Fry-feeder set-ups

COVER STORY Reservoir ace Rob Edmunds selects his top four set-ups for late season fry-feeders

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42 Mobile fry patterns

78 Reader offer

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Phil Dixon picks his favourite six from the Fastmail collection COVER STORY

WHERE TO FISH

OPINION & NEWS

46 Catch memories

Dave Malpas recalls an incredible salmon session!

84 News

Latest news on the trout scene plus match results and interviews

87 Cockwill

Looking back at the pressure of producing the goods while on feature days for TF

88 Letters

47 UK waters

Trout Fisherman readers have their say

Details of three top trout fisheries from around the country to visit this month

90 Iain Barr

A quick rule change moan before sharing fry feeding tactics

50 Spotlight on...

COVER STORY Late autumn bank and boat hotspots, tactics and flies for Rutland Water

91 Troutmasters

Are you among this month’s badge winners?

52 Snook on the fly in Belize

98 Wading in

COVER STORY Tempting these hard-fighting fish from line-breaking snags is an experience you’ll never forget!

Jeff Prest recalls his memories of the late great Bob Church

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TACTICS R I V E R S Words Steve Cullen Pictures Peter Gathercole

Steve prepares to net a fish from a coloured Derbyshire Derwent.

TACTICS

Go with THE FLOW

Steve Cullen reveals tips for fish location on rivers during low water

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TACTICS T A Y S A L M O N Words & pictures Jeffrey Prest

Broaden your horizons...

If you’re looking for a gentle introduction to fishing the UK’s great salmon rivers, there’s a beat on the Tay we know of, but be warned, your work starts before you get there…

Gordon Pollock casts while upstream of Dunkeld Bridge.

TACTICS R E S E R V O I R S Words Iain Barr Pictures Peter Gathercole

Grafham's quality trout are showing well this season.

Grafham ON FORM

After a dull 2018, the Cambridgeshire venue is in fine form this season, with explosive surface action across the middle, says Iain Barr

TACTICS S M A L L W A T E R S Words & pictures Jeffrey Prest

AND SO TO AUTUMN…

Temperatures and leaves may fall but fishing needn’t be all lures, lures, lures. At one Scottish fishery, the breadth of imitative fishing on offer is virtually an open book…

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OU’D think the phrase “still waters run deep” would be done to death in a magazine like this, yet I can’t remember another occasion when it sprang so readily to mind as it does when I recall my visit to Goldenloch Fishery.

While a drizzly Fife morning didn’t help, it just seemed like another pleasant rural pond as I arrived and chatted with owner John Nicol. Outside, just a few anglers were in evidence. It was like a hundred other Thursdays at a hundred other fisheries.

It’s when you do your research and turn to its website that Goldenloch begins to grab you.

In the sanitised world of modern

commerce, where every press release is couched in safe, cloying terms, John Nicols’ weekly fishery reports comprise such unapologetic candour that you briefly wonder if he might need saving from himself.

Slings and arrows

Without fear or favour, every sling and arrow of trout fishery fortune goes into those dispatches from the front. If there’s a weed problem at Goldenloch, if high temperatures are temporarily killing it, even if there’s a "light infestation” of argulus, it’s all written down, interspersed with catch numbers and the

TACTICS F R Y F E E D E R S Words & pictures Russ Symons

Russ Symons with his third fish of the Wimbleball session, a seven-pounder, which fell to a Floating Minkie.

They’re on the fry!

Cooler weather will see trout chasing fry. Russ Symons shares his top tactics to make the most of the action

TACTICS S M A L L W A T E R S Words Peter Cockwill Pictures Peter Gathercole

All hell breaks loose

There's nothing better then seeing fish actually take your fly, says Peter Cockwill as he puts stalking tactics to the test at Chalk Springs

Peter Cockwill plays a strong rainbow at Chalk Springs.

WHERE TO FISH O V E R S E A S Words & pictures Dave Lewis

You're going to love snook fishing!

Tempting these hard-fighting, acrobatic fish from line-breaking snags is an experience you'll never forget, says Dave Lewis

A snook with dorsal fin erect is a sight to behold.

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