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Daddy Long Legs - The Daddy of Dry Flies
Dry fly fishing can be exciting when Daddy Long Legs are hatching. David Southall talks us through the best leader for dry fly fishing, when to use the Daddy as a dry fly and if sunken Daddies are effective. Good as a dry fly or a wet fly, daddy's can catch rainbow trout, brown trout and other species on the fly.
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Hawthorn Flies & Black Gnats - Terrestrial Flies
Late April is the start of ‘Terrestrial Time’. The 25th of April is St. Mark’s Day, the time when the Hawthorn Fly (Bibio marcii) traditionally appears. Some years there is a glut of these relatively big gangly-legged Bibionids: at such times, on sunny, breezy days clouds of them may be seen taking shelter behind bankside tree-cover.
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Large Dark Olives for dry fly fishing
Grayling have been rising to microscopically small midges & I’ve usually had to drop down to size 30 CdC flies to consistently tempt the fish. This has necessitated the use of soft actioned light-line rods
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400 species of Chironomid. What to use?
It always amazes me how few fly fishers fish with tiny Midge imitations, particularly in winter when Midges are generally the only flies to hatch. There is not a single day in the year that some Midges do not hatch on our lakes & rivers.
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Fly Fishing in Montana, my Nirvana...
On the spring creeks, tributaries of the Yellowstone River at Livingston, (Armstrong & De Puys) we encountered hot, sunny weather with a brisk wind during the middle of the day. Surface activity was mainly confined to the mornings & late evenings with massive hatches of tiny chironomid midges plus a few very small Blue Winged Olive duns & spinners.
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