WHEN WE GET OUT OF LOCKDOWN AND BACK ON TO THE RIVERS, HERE ARE TEN WAYS TO GET YOUR ROD BENDING AGAIN TO A SALMON. Try something different. (Strip your fly back fast, and/or radically change fly size even using a much bigger fly, change lines, change rods, change pools.) Stalk your fish (keep a low profile, tread carefully). Fish the best bits fast – and cover the water including mutliple pools (a walk or car ride away) if you have that option. Take a break (just stop fishing, talk to a friend in the fishing hut, have a brew or go back to your digs and shower and change). Because when you restart you’ll be a different fisher with a different atttitude and that’s when you catch fish. Try a fast sinking line in deep pools, even in low water conditions. Might be a time to try that bigger fly stripped back past the noses of fish. Or give the normally surface-fished Sunray Shadow a swim through deeper, fish-holding water. In pools with a slow-flow, cast 90 degrees directly across, and ‘men...
