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Using Buzzer Flies

Buzzer Trout Flies

 

Buzzer fishing flies are a midge pupa and are so called because of the buzzing noise they make in swarms. Buzzer Trout  Flies start in life as a bloodworm and live in the mud usually in still waters, they are generally red in colour at this stage although close to hatching the colour of the buzzer fly fades, The buzzer trout fly will then travel to the surface of the water in a wriggling action once they are there they will wait before hatching and so quite often drop back down a few times, this is a great period for the trout to feed on buzzer flies. Keeping the buzzer quite still then slowly retrieving then letting it stay motionless again will imitate a natural hatch. When the buzzers eventually hatch they will come out in adult buzzer for or midge flies. The life cycle of buzzer flies is really quite easy and they do hatch all year round, keep a look out for the adult for of the flies or discarded pupa bodies.

 

Buzzer Flies can be fished as a team, generally a good prominent one on the point, a good choice is a shipmans buzzer for this. with perhaps another two 5 feet apart. If a good natural breeze is present the flies can be left to drift, If not a figure of eight retrieve with intermittent pulls is fine.

Fishing the buzzer as a single fly is about getting the right depth on the buzzer, once you have established the depth the trout are feeding you could use a strike indicator to keep the depth.

 

Epoxy buzzers are a good fly to gain a quick sink to get the correct depth, again a figure of eight retrieve, but watch out for takes on the drop.

 

Fishing the buzzer in the winter months can get results, the midge is an important part of the trouts natural diet at this time of year as they are still active at the bottom of the water. On a sunny winters day they will swim and find their way to higher points in the swim. Try using the bloodworm as a point fly with buzzers on the droppers.