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.

Make sure to check out @howardcrostonflyfisher9227's  channel!

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