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Post by flyboxfan on Apr 12, 2009 17:09:51 GMT
Managed this years first brownie on a dry fly today. There was a superb sustained hatch which spluttered on and off for several hours. Few fish decided that this was enough of an event to start rising. Yippeee
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Apr 12, 2009 18:18:07 GMT
Many congrats FBF, was it grannom hatching?
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Post by flyboxfan on Apr 13, 2009 17:21:41 GMT
The hatch was really mixed...... with loads of very small flies mixed with medium upwings and large sedgy types which hatched in bursts. Flies were coming of from after 10.00 a.m. until 5.00 when I left the river. Unfortunately my timing was well off, as I had a number of other fish rise to the artificial but just missed them.
You have discovered one of my weaknesses I know more about fly boxes than hatching flies. I just see what colour and what size they appear to be, then open up the fly boxes and see what is the closest I can find and fancy fishing with. Not very scientific I am afraid but sometimes it works.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Apr 15, 2009 6:55:39 GMT
Hi FBF,
I too like the simple is best rule and use just a handful of flies for fishing for trout on rivers everywhere. Sadly this means I don't own as many fly boxes ;D
Sounds like the sedgy flies you mentioned were the grannom.
We have been getting them on the Taw but they seem to be spluttering affairs throughout the day rather than a nice big concentrated blanket hatch to get the fish really on them.
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