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Peter Gathercole learns a radical new grayling technique that northern match anglers Paul Davison and Howard Croston say has improved their take detection by up to 500 per cent.
SNOW and ice freeze the banks and hoar frost still gilds the stark branches at midday. It's minus five degrees and most creatures with a pulse are well and truly tucked up somewhere warm - except for a few well-insulated fisherman brave enough to try their luck at catching that 'Lady of the Stream' the grayling.
Perfectly streamlined with that huge dorsal fin, the grayling is one of the most attractive fish in our rivers. The River Teviot in Scotland's Border region meanders from the hills to join the River Tweed at Kelso and is famous for big grayling, sometimes over 31b, and that's the mission today.
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When you are flyfishing with the wet flies or nymphs you often need to get down into deep and strong streams or deep pools where the biggest fish usually lie. For this reason we usually weigh flies in the body with lead or other types of wire and of different diameters, which we tie along the hook shank.
At the time of my active competition career, between 1981-82, I started using different body weights, which were the only variations possible at that period. About eight years ago I started using body weights of different shapes, which became part of the hook and which started to solve some existing problems.
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If you've kept your ear to the ground in recent seasons it won't have escaped your attention that Czech Nymphs have made something of an impression when it comes to trout and grayling sport on rivers such as the Welsh Dee.
These flies are cleverly tied to be ultra-heavy with a slim profile that represents various aquatic creatures. The point is they look right but sink right down, even in strong flowing water.
But now they're also being used to devastating effect on Hanningfield to catch the hefty trout that sometimes hold around the Essex reservoir's trout cages.
Our cameras were at Hanningfield to witness the method in action. It certainly proved highly successful with Phil Barker from Simpsons of Turnford tackle shop boating a 121b 4oz rainbow and Hertford angler Bob Woodford taking a brace of 10lb 8oz and 8lb 4oz.
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