Buzzer fishing is upon us and the fishing is great. Now is the time to get out and catch fish on buzzers! Some of you (anglers in the US for example) may know these as chironomids, so just know that they're the same thing as buzzers. In this fly fishing master class, Signature Tyer Rob Edmunds heads out on his home water, Grafham Water, to show us how to fish buzzers on stillwaters for trout. He talks us through several of the different rigs he uses, lines, rods, leader setups and of course, flies. He starts the day with a midge tip, but the fish are quickly up on top so he spends most of the day fishing a floating line with the washing line method using buzzers, daddies and diawl bachs. Rob also talks about where to fish, and strategies for finding bigger, grown on fish. For all you stillwater anglers across the world, this is a great place to learn how to fish buzzers on your own waters!
00:00 Starting off the day of buzzer fishing 01:28 Setting up Rob's buzzer rods 02:32 45 years of fishing. 02:47 Rob's leader setup for fishing buzzers 04:01 Flies for fishing the washing line 06:10 How to fish the washing line 06:49 "Short lining" fish 08:56 Rob considers switching lines 11:36 Rob sets up a lighter rod and floating line 13:23 Rob selects his buzzer/nymph patterns 17:29 Advantages to fishing a floating line 19:07 Straight lining buzzers 20:36 How to land fish when you've hooked a double 22:06 Rob discusses diawl bachs, muskin's and epoxy buzzers 24:23 Catching grown on fish 26:27 Change things up if you want to keep learning 29:52 Rob discusses shrimp feeders 31:29 Rob get's into more detail about large, grown on fish
Rob Edmunds is a stillwater and reservoir fishing expert. He began fly-fishing at just 4 years old and match fishing soon became his primary focus after first representing England at just 16 years of age. Rob has won nine European titles both individually and as part of a team. He's also an avid fly tyer, and is responsible for many of the popular patterns we now take for granted (Nemo, Tequila Blob, Traffic Light Buzzer, Snake Booby etc.). In recent years his focus has shifted slightly to targeting specimen trout. As such, he's currently the only person to have ever caught at least 1 "double figure trout" from all 4 of the Anglian Water Reservoirs. Needless to say, when it comes to stillwaters Rob is a wealth of knowledge!
