Intoduction to Grayling Bugging

Steve Cullen

 

 

STEVEN CULLENS BUGGING SET UP.
I use an 8 foot leader with an indicator, the reason for the indicator is that it allows me to fish the flies at different depths and flows without having to change flies so much.
The indicator allows me 3 feet to play with, in other words I can fish with my top dropper a foot below the surface or 4 feet below and this also dictaes the depth of the other 2 flies.

The basic method is to have about 6" to a foot of line out the top eye, flick upstream so that the flies trundle past your feet and let them come round as the flies "start" to lift strike, sometimes it pays to let the flies rise right up in the current at the end of the swing but as a rule I normally strike at the point I think the flies are "starting" to rise in the water.
You can also use this method without the indicator, but with a coloured bit braid for leader attachment at the end of the fly line, this gives you a colour contrast wich is easier to see than your normal connection, "this was shown to me by Grant Gibson" who first took me out for Grayling on the Tweed, Gibby fishes a hell of a lot of competitions and as indicators are not allowed, someone came up with the bright coloured braid.
The other good thing with the indicator is that you can fish 2 sides of a seam in the river one by normal bugging and the other by "high sticking" keeping the rod high above the river with no line touching the water.

 

 

Steve Cullen