This page is updated daily to ensure that all Allandale visitors are aware of the best flies and tactics to use for great sport. We use up-to-the-minute reports from all our experts and anglers who have had particularly good catches to make this report. This report is as of 30/11/09 The Tarn froze a few days after this report and has been frozen fro 3 months!..
Tight lines in the 2010 season where ever you manage to wet a line!..
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Flies
The sections below give the latest information on what's catching here at Allandale Tarn & how best to use them!
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Tactics
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The spring fed water is still crystal clear, so floating lines are largely recommended throughout the day. Best tactics the past few mornings inspite of the variable weather has been a single damsels or black rabbits at about 2 & 1/2 ft! Changing to either an Apts blood worm fished at 2ft off an indicator or a size 12 shuttlecock , Yellow Owl CDC fished almost static straight off the surface by late morning!..
- In the afternoon, anglers are mostly bagging up with a size 10 Millenium , orange Dancer or again the Yellow Owl as by this time the fish have been feeding in the top foot & a half!...The territorial resident Brownies are cruising the margins and are largely being tempted by smaller nymphs and spider patterns and by later in the afternoons, alot of the 'Bows are also being caught within a few rod lenghts of the bankings and this has continiued until the end of the day!
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The daily temperatures have been variable, but only occasionally has a slow sink or intermediate line been recommended. Even then the fish are still taking in the top few feet, but the increased rate of decent sometimes proves an advantage. If the fish are swirling, try changing to a clear momo like a fluorocarbon or degreasing the line you have on again!..
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Tight lines!
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Allandales spring fed lake is Gin clear and the abundance of food can make them choosy!! So keep the lures slim and natural shades and fish them high and slower, especially around the margins on brighter days. You can't go far wrong with some damsel variant or even a tadpole pattern but anything black or olive should do well. The sunniest times of the day, around noon then dinner, it's worth getting the yellow dancers wet or an old favorite of mine, the Cat's whisker. |
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The best wet flies lately have been various buzzers. Muddler minnow are always worth a try in a good ripple and in low light or dusk conditions. Although the plain copper wire blood worm (the ministers flea), is doing well fished off an indicator around 1 &1/2 feet. Anglers might also give other traditional wets a go, like a black & red cormorant ,Teal blue or other fry patterns. |
| Dry Flies |
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Black spiders, blue dun and the Yellow Owl CDC mostly. Fished either singularly or on point with a buzzer or nymph dropper about 2& 1/2 ft away on floating lines. On calmer, sunnier days spiders & parachute flies work best fished static in the surface film tweaking now and then. |
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Damsel activity has been abundant and this Allandale favorite is bringing in some very nice sized fish as is the pearl ribbed hares ear nymph. Fish it singularly on a floating line with as long a leader as you can handle, or add a CDC on the point as an indicator. |