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Traditional booby fishing
Reservoir anglers fish in the dead of winter for boobies when they're allowed (check your reservoir, as they may not be allowed). Booby fishing is often criticized, but when properly practiced, it causes no injury or death to trout.
Inevitably, at some point in the winter, trout are glued to the bottom, and fishing with boobies allows you to keep your flies in the right layer of water and animate them gently when the water is cold. There's clearly no equivalent, and this technique is used in every reservoir in France and Europe.
There are several reasons for mounting 2 or 3 boobies on a line body:
- Find the depth at which the trout are moving.
- Identify the color that works best.
- Reach more fish by presenting different models, sizes, shapes and colors.
However, when this type of fishing is frequently used and the trout have been caught several times, and/or when they become more wary, the use of a single booby can make all the difference.
Nevertheless, it is possible to combine a booby, FAB or blobby with other flies.
Combine other flies on a booby rig
When fishing with several boobies no longer yields results, or bites become rarer and of poorer quality, it's time to try something else.
But if the trout are close to the bottom, where they find their thermal comfort, you should continue to fish with sinking lines.
If streamer fishing with intermediate to plunging silk, depending on the depth of the station, produces slow results, it's possible to mount a single booby and use smaller, more discreet flies to thwart the trout, which have gradually begun to feed on prey found in the lake where you're fishing.
Flies such as diawl bach, cormorant or even a light nymph or unweighted chiro will be good options. But ultimately any other light fly will also work.
By placing this "little" fly between the tip of the line and the booby, the imitation will be suspended and fishy. It will be able to insist at the right depth and, with the fly's up and down animation, provoke the fish.
However, you'll need to find the right water level and mount a light fly so that the booby can bring up the leader and the stem where your fly is located. The size of the eyes and the materials used to assemble the fly are therefore important to ensure that the fly is fishable, i.e. that the tippet (booby, Fab or blobby) allows the fly to rise up the stem.
The booby can also act as a "teaser", attracting fish to either take the booby or come to the booby, refuse it and then take the fly.
Tying with a booby and other flies: diawl bach, cormorant, chiro
Captions:
- 1- Diving silk S3/S5/S7 depending on depth of station
- 2- Water surface
- 3- Background
- 4- Depth âeuros from 2 mètres and more
- 5- 18/20° leader from 0.30 to 1 m or more between tang and stem and from 50 cm to 1 m or more between stem and booby
- 6- Surgical node
- 7- Stem
