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Fly Fishing Flies
Advice on fly fishing flies. Whatever your preferred target trout, salmon, sea bass or tarpon we offer advice on fly fishing flies in this blog.
Top 10 Buzzer Patterns For Rainbow and Brown Trout. With Hundreds Patterns Available Worldwide What Buzzers Should You Take For Rainbows On Reservoirs, Lakes and Lochs? Find the answer here where we example the different style of buzzers and when they should be used.
Top 10 Streamer & Lure Fly Patterns For Rainbow Trout. With Hundreds Patterns Available Worldwide What Flies Should You Take For Rainbows On Reservoirs, Lakes and Lochs? Find the answer with the top fly partterns for stillwaters
Hans Van Klinken, Barbless Mohicans, & Straggle String
Blank Buster Nomads - which colour?
Buzzers understand more about this important food for trout, essential for fly fishermen!
Top Trout Dry Flies - The Best Dries For Your Rainbow Trout Stillwater Fly Fishing - A Key question often asked on the phone to our customer service team
Barbless Traffic Light Buzzers
What to look out for with damsel nymph flies.
The Brown Trout inhabits rivers, lakes, lochs and reservoirs. It was originally a European species of salmonid fish which is found in freshwater. The Brown Trout, Salmon trutta morpha fario and Salmo trutta morpha lacustris are known as the sea trout which migrates to saltwater and only returns to fresh water to breed.
We the weather improving through March early indications for trout fly fishing are that temperatures should be around 10C and not mad winds like we have had through January and February. There are still superb Trout to be had, Stillwaters are producing stunning Brown & Rainbow Trout and rivers will be opening for Trout mostly on 22nd March. (check local byelaws from the Environment Agency for your rivers).
September sees a weath of fly fishing with some of the summer heat having burned off and some great hatches of flies. What are the best flis? water temperatures are back to normal fishing levels on smaller stillwaters so we are in for a great month of fly fishing we should start to use flies like. ....................
April almost every fly fisherman will have started their return after the winter break, the last of winter has disappeared and rivers are getting to normality. We see the last of hatches of March Browns in April and on rivers the Pond Olives start to hatch we should start to use flies like. ....................