Day Tactics
Tackling up for daytime sewin fishing is easy: a 9-10 ft (2.6 m) lightweight trout rod rated for an AFTM #6 line is ideal, with a floating line and a 10 to 12 ft leader tapering down to 4lb.
Wet fly fishing is the best method to use flies. Sizes 12 and 14 are all you need during the day, and a single fly presented well is far more effective than two or three in a ‘team’ splashed down heavily.
A Haslam Fly
Rivers with plenty of fast, boulder-strewn stretches, streamy glides provide concealment, and tree-tunnelled riffles where it is twilight on even the brightest of summer days – these are the haunts of sewin that will take a fly from dawn to dusk.
Early in the season – May and June – the two hours either side of sunset are the perfect time for newcomers to sewin fishing. You can still see what you are doing, and provided you move slowly it is possible to catch sewin.
Spinning
When spinning, use Flying ‘C’ and Tobys in high water and small Mepps or quill minnows in low water. Colour of lures has more to do with personal confidence so take local advice.