Fly Fishing with a World Champion: Howard Croston on Small Stillwater Fishing
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- In this video, Fulling Mill Signature Tyer Howard Croston walks us through his most used methods for small stillwater fly fishing. These are the three main tactics he employs if he doesn't know a small stillwater and wants to enjoy his day of fishing, or to get an idea of how it will fish. As he's often fishing completely new bodies of water in competitions, these are tactics that have proven themselves time and time again.
This video is broken into three parts: pulling lures, nymph fishing, and dry fly fishing. All three tactics have their time and place on small stillwaters, and Howard goes over when and why to use each. If you're a stillwater angler, or want to become one, you absolutely don't want to miss this #troutfishing #stillwater #lakefishing
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Howard's three most used stillwater methods
01:28 Starting the day
02:32 Howard's pulling setup
03:04 Starting to fish: pulling lures
04:51 Fishing the hang
07:37 Playing a fish
11:07 If it's not happening: Make it happen.
14:12 Switching methods: fishing nymphs with a midge tip
15:55 Howard's stillwater nymph setup
17:03 Starting to nymph fish
20:24 Indicator marks on your fly line
21:14 A competition strategy
23:39 Changing flies: fishing a light washing line
24:13 Greasing your fly line
29:26 How to play fish
31:20 Changing methods: dry fly fishing
32:55 Dry fly patterns
33:48 Starting off on dries
34:54 Dealing with drag
37:53 Grease versus degrease on the line and leader
40:48 How fish track in the water
44:40 A change in conditions
Howard Croston is a World Fly Fishing Champion (2019) and member of the English International Fly Fishing team. He’s also the Global Brand and Product Manager at Hardy. As one of our Signature Tyers Howard is constantly innovating new flies, and has many proven trout fly patterns in our collection. In this video you'll hear him discuss several of his flies that we carry, which are must-haves as the small stillwater season heats up.
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I absolutely love these Howard Croston videos, I will watch this one several times over and over again. I have every Howard video that I can find on my CZcams playlist and I play it when I’m driving to go fishing, mainly the Stillwater videos for when I’m going Stillwater fishing. There are some great little nuggets of information that Howard mentions and I catch a few more trout from them. I’ve purchased Howard’s drop back bungs and flies that go with them. The indicator he’s designed with the certain weighted flies are catching me more trout on the lakes and ponds. Thanks a ton for the video, I appreciate it!!!!!
Absolutely thrilled to hear it! Thanks so much for your kind words and support. Good luck on the water this winter!
Great vid Howard. Wise words indeed. 👌
I’ve done a lot of research and watching of videos to improve my fly fishing abilities. This long form tutorial style taught me more than a bundle of shorter videos. Thank you !!
I really like this video because it is similar to the course fishing videos by Preston innovations and MATRIX fishing, which I'm a big fan of. Please make more fly fishing videos like this. 😁👍
Tip Top Howard. 👌
Very helpful instructional video. I learned a lot. More like this, please.
As ever an absolute brilliant video from Howard. We all learn so so much from his knowledge and skill. Thanks a lot bud. Cheers
Packed full of great info.
Hi Howard, Thanks for sharing some really good tips and technique’s. The explanations and reasoning on how you approach each step for your fly fishing are so useful… I’ve learnt so many things from your videos, best regards, Wayne 😀👍
Packed with great advice.
Great session and very informative Howard. Too true regarding fish feeding and not feeling at hand. I’ve been marking my lines for years. It just you that lead in on a take that you’d otherwise miss. Thank you
Excellent video, really enjoyed watching, as always excellent tips from the man himself, thanks for sharing, tight lines
Designed and tied a dry fly that virtually never sinks, also a leader system that always sink leaving nothing on the top .These two catches me hundreds of fish every year and a quick strip if the fly does sinks also catches many fish. Love dry fly fishing.
Excellent thank you!
Thanks!! Extremelly interesting and useful
Happy to hear it!
This was super helpful. Thank you.
Very happy to hear it!
Feel like I've just had a guided session. Camera work, editing and Howard's extremely helpful commentary has been extremely helpful. Hope much of it transfers well to here in Victoria, Australia! Thanks very much!
Thank you for your kind words 🙏
Dear Howard,
I really enjoy watching your videos. I am fishing for more than 45 years now and there is still a lot to learn.
What are your favourite knots when fishing lures, buzzers, nymphs and dries?
I like to use a non-slip-mono-knot for lures and nymphs when fished with one fly only, for buzzers and dries the improved clinch knot.
For very small flies like midges I use either a clinch or a davy knot.
Best regards from Bavaria!
Superb 👍
Fantastic
legend
Great video I love these tips and tricks from the master just wish it came sooner in the year, on the nymph leader what distance would you use between files ? Also is there any chance of a video tutorial on how to tie the trigger db pretty please 🙏 if not more of these type videos would be great . thank you to Howard and filling mill
We recommend 3-4 feet apart for the nymph setup. We'll add a trigger DB video to the list for this coming year!
A very useful video, very professionally done. I wondered which fishery this might be ? It looks delightful. Tight Lines .
Thank you! It is Chatton Trout Fishery.
@@FullingMillTV many thanks for the info 🦈🦈
great information what length and weight of rod were you using ?
Excellent thoroughly enjoyed that on this cold November afternoon. Trouble is I’ve got 4 1/2 months to wait now. I notice you don’t play a fish off the reel which I always try to do, and the difference is?? Thanks again John from Scotland 🏴
Hi John , I rarely play fish from the reel to be honest , I find you can react a lot quicker and more smoothly when playing a fish by hand. I do use the reel in the Salt or when Salmon fishing .
Great video! Will we ever be able to get Howard’s drop back bung in the US?
Yes! We anticipate that it will arrive this year.
Can you demonstrate on how to tie Howard’s kick back cormorant and the bung buzzer please?
We are filming videos for this soon!
@@FullingMillTV please provide details of hook type and beads used. Thanks
Hi I've just bought the hardy ultralite 10ft for a 7weight, wot flyline is the best on the rod m8
The moment he bumped that first fish within first 4 casts I would have used a washing line no doubt the fish where high in the water
It's just a hole in the ground