"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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Try looking at some of the British fishing sites. They are very big on
fishing "still water."


Buzzers are the mainstay of the British lake scene. Fishing with them is
quite easy, as you just cast them out and let them slowly sink. Buzzers are
supposed to represent the chironomids (spelling?) and these are the pupa of
bloodworm larva. The adult looks like a big mosquito, and buzzes around the
waters (hence the name). I think that most lakes around the world have
something similar, and most trout in the UK lakes feed mainly on buzzers.

Most people use several buzzers at once and fish on a longish leader. The
difficult aspect of fishing buzzers is the bite detection. However, quite
often people use bright indicators that attach to the leader. These float
and provide depth setting as well as bite indication. Others use the
floating leader (with applied grease) to determine when to strike. Others
still use a bushy dryfly as the bob fly, and get the benefit of the
occasional rise at the dryfly indicator. The way to fish them is to slowly
retrieve the line at a pace only as fast as the coils in the flyline; i.e.
you just keep the line taut, and not allow any surface "coil" zig zags to
form on the surface. After a while, your line is in, and you cast it out
again.

Personally speaking, I prefer on lakes, fishing when the trout are taking
hatching buzzers. The trout being up on the surface porpoise rolling makes
for some good fun. Wading around the margins casting imitations (sometimes
a klinkhamer does a good job for these occasions) in front of a porpoise
rolling trout is exciting! Much more fun that the wait-and-watch deep down
buzzer, but if the fish are down there, then so must be your flies.