Trout Fly Fishing Blog

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Today we’ll touch on a number of topics, focusing on Upstream Nymphing, whilst also considering how a pair of polarized sunglasses can make all the difference to your fishing trip, and how getting “that sinking feeling” will make you appear psychic to those less experienced.

The problems you'll face this season revealed.

3 essential tips for fly fishing in winter.

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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.

Buzzer Trout Flies Hatch Frequency

Midges are part of the Chironomidae family which is their Latin name, we know them as midges with their larval form called blood worm and the pupae are commonly called buzzers, these are what we use as flies for fly fishing. What times of year do buzzers hatch? Check our hatch guide below for guidelines

Today's blog post discusses Black Magic Dry Flies, Salmon Hair Wing Flies, and Semperfli's Micro Glint which is great for buzzers.

Understand the midge in its natural form and you will become a better trout fly fisherman. Why are they called buzzers? Simple when the adult midges swarm they make a buzzing noise!

Every month we publish details hatch charts to help you understand what is expected to hatch on rivers and stillwaters and what flies to use to mimic them. With this valuable information we hope that you will be even better prepared for that fly fishing trip

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. ....................

Kick Sampling is the key method to use on rivers to establish which fishing flies match the nymphs and invertebrates that you should be using. Kick Sampling is an easy process but will reap massive benefits for the fly fisherman each time they try this before fishing, almost every day of the year.

Brown Trout are generally looking for fishing flies that are imitative of the natural food found in their environment, it may be a Blue Winged Olive, Caddis, shrimp or Rhyacophila nymph that look similar to the natural bugs in the water