#riverfly

[albagamefishing]

Custom order to @_pan_lesnik and some @daviemcphail style olives for early season trout. Nice work @cuillinrae 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔥 . . . . #flytying #flytyingjunkie #troutflies #dryflies #troutfishing #veniardflytying #fullingmill #riverflies #albagamefishing #orvisuk #orvis #toolsofthetrade (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7HQyXttZG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[masticadoresdeletraslatino]

Animals/ Angels by Peter Mladinic

night’s stillnessheavenly thunder rain in the meadowAngelsfly flies to treetops, higher into the cathedral of the red breasted robin and circles within walls so high their topscan’t be seenAngelsfly wears the veil, is the veil,that flicker of flight in the darkness around us Beginnings and ends of sufferingsmystic the veil the chamber the spiral over the river within the riverflying into…

[pubz77]

Some more wet flies #wetfly #troutfood #riverflies https://www.instagram.com/p/CADG9ckDSf8/?igshid=yu4h58l6w6ed

[fishing-exposed]

@paulprocter: Perhaps the most handsome wild brown trout of my season so far…those criss-cross of spots are truly mesmerizing! @Semperfli @Partridge_Hooks @CostaSunglasses @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons @Riverflies #wildtrout #newseason #spring #april #flyfishing #fish #fishinglife https://t.co/tDf8qr7zZA

[epicflyrods]

• BEND IT • Epic FastGlass® - light, responsive and VERY tough. Our mates @riverfly1864 in Tasmania having an Epic day👌 ・・・ Putting a bend on one of 29 Tassie creek trout for the day. An epic day with an Epic rod. 📸 RiverFly guide @merseyfly #flyfishingtasmania #flyfishtasmania #tasmania #epicflyrods #dryordie #unordinaryadventures #gfaoa https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Pa_aen782/?igshid=vtchcgcwrfu4

[iheartthefly]

Just Risers Halfway through the trout off-season, then mate and fellow RiverFly 1864 guide Peter Broomhall throws up a couple of minutes footage of brown trout rising to naturals on Tasmanian streams.

[yourlongjumpukk]

FREE RIVERFLY TRAINING DAY

Date / Time

Start date: 

Thu, 14/02/2019 - 10:00am - 4:30pm

The Angler’s Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) helps rivers to be monitored more widely and at greater frequency than is possible by the Environment Agency alone. Volunteers take kick samples from the river bed each month, recording the presence and abundance of invertebrate groups which are very sensitive to pollution and are therefore good indicators of water quality. This free workshop aims to introduce new volunteers to this scheme.

Organised by The Cornwall Wildlife Trust in conjunction with The Riverfly Partnership

Booking details

Booking required?: 

Yes

Admission charge: 

No

Audience: 

Adults

Contact name: 

Laura Fox

Contact number: 

(01872) 302246

Contact email: 

laura.fox@cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk

Fully booked: 

No

Cancelled: 

No

Other details

Mobility: 

Not suitable for people with limited mobility

Wheelchair: 

Not suitable for wheelchair users

What to bring?: 

Wellies, waders if you have them and lunch/drink

Location

Meeting place: 

Meet at Porkellis Village Hall, Porkellis, Helston

Address

County: 

Cornwall

Postcode: 

TR13 0LD

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[baffinbayrodandgun]

@MattHayesfish: @Riverflies @RoyEntSoc My effort - a hatching leptophlebia mayfly. Caught in the act! @RoyEntSoc @Riverflies… https://t.co/5cUwn6Pql8 http://ift.tt/2pWgBaF

[tuff-flyfishing-blog]

These early days of the trout season are some of my favourite times of the entire season, I love the early days the feeling of rebirth after the grey winter months were the rivers and its banks felt so lifeless and stark. The first shoots of regeneration reach skywards and the air fills with the hum of the first bumble bees and skylarks song. Up-wings lifting from the water, as the occasional wild flowers dot the banks with yellows and whites beneath the purple haze cast by the broadleaf trees ripe with buds ready to burst open, flooding the grey world with bright fresh green bathed in the new warmth of spring sunshine. It lifts the soul, putting a skip in your step and a smile on even a grumpy bugger like myselfs’ face. 

For the dry fly fanatic this can be a season of success, plenty and simplicity where I know I can with confidence carry less flies an know with some certainty that it will also produce some of the larger trout that I will see for the year, but it does require patience 

3lb river Deveron brown trout

  So how do you win during these early days of Spring and April;

·               Timing; Know when and what to fish

Start of the season its all about timing, you could fish from dawn till dusk but you could also beat your head against a brick wall, both have different outcomes but are equally as pointless. I have watched other fishers thrash the water and leave disheartened. You need to fish the window when the hatch is on, this tends to be a rather short 3 or 4 hour period over lunch from around 11am till 3pm, the warmest part of these spring days. So don’t be precious about a sit down meal at 1pm because that’s when the fishing is often getting good. Part of the real joy of the hatch at this time of year is the limited selection of what is likely to be hatching; Up-wings like LDOs (large dark olives), March Browns and occasional Brook duns. Grannom and Alders – members of the caddis family. We also see some stoneflies and midge and this limited number of species means fly selection becomes easier and its quicker to zone in on what the trout are feeding on. During these golden hours, regardless of whether you are fishing dries, nymphs or wets, the fish are far more likely to be switched on. I have seen it where arriving early on the river and not a fish is seen or taken till the hatch begins. Above or below the surface it truly is like a switch being thrown.

Crippled March brown dun

·               What fly;

What is hatching? As I said before at this time of year certainly in Northern Scotland it is a select group of flies that we tend to see, but you must be aware there is always a regional variation in time of year and the species that will be hatching. In North East Scotland we are several weeks behind the South of England and invariably the magazines and social media chatter begins announcing what is likely to be hatching and people are catching on; “LDOs”, “Grannom have started”, “oh the first Iron blues”. But don’t assume that mean your stretch river 300 or 400 miles North is seeing these species hatching at that time, remember it is vitally important to see what is actually hatching! Don’t presume! It is also important to factor ineather, remember it’s one of our mainstays as conversation in Britain, this year it’s a key point in fact with a mild winter and warm March things are most certainly further on than usual and in some cases by as much as 2 weeks plus. So be prepared, as with everything in nature there is variation so you have to get out there and observe.

Maybe the name LDOs and March Browns are just gobble-d-gook to you or maybe you have heard them before and want to improve your knowledge of the invertebrates we find in our rivers and lochs! Well there is help at hand there are two great wee books, a couple of invaluable websites and a new App that every flyfisher should have to help them with identification of what is hatching and when through out the year and what imitations best suit.

Particularly Matching the Hatch by Peter Lapsley for those new to flyfishing who need that little bit of help and confidence to choose the right fly to imitate the hatch. Its simple, easy to use and small enough to slip in the fishing vest or wader pocket. Above all use your eyes!  nothing beats getting out there and exploring the entomology of the river. What’s in the water, what’s in and on the surface not forgetting what is also on the bank and in the air above, better known as terrestrials. Turn over some stones in the river and actually see what invertebrate life is there it can sometimes be wonderous what you find.

I carry a small aqautics dip net and a wee Tupperware so I can rootle around under and among the stones of the riverbed. It produces a wealth of information that is incredibly insightful, helping inform my choices and adding to my knowledge of what species are present, every day fishing is a day learning.

http://www.wildtrout.org

  https://blog.fishtec.co.uk/upwing-river-flies-infographic

  App can be found here at the Riverfly partnership in both android and ios

http://www.riverflies.org/match-hatch-mobile-app-anglers-useful-armi-monitors-too

By taking the time to do these searches I found that I became far choosier in my fly selection, more confident in my choices and I saw a distinct improvement in catches.

Never was a statement truer than “ imitation is the greatest form of flattery” I truly believe imitating naturally what is hatching will produce greater results.

March Brown Nymph

LDO nymph, March brown Nymph, FW shrimp, Caddis larve

·               Patience;

Take your time its not a race! What is the point in dashing from the car to the rivers edge jumping in and wading waist deep, chucking fluff or tungsten in every directing with the blind hope that a brownie will take? Explore! Walk and explore the stretch of river, too many fishers never fish more than 100 yards of the car park, laziness. Yes you will catch fish if you are lucky, but you may well be missing better fishing else where and half the fun of wild brown trout fishing is that sense of exploration, fishing the spot less fished.

Now breathe and take some time to just look and listen! Watch the water, look for foam lines; trout feed here. Just as the current has funneled and ”trapped” the foam in these lines so will it trap food items, hatching and spent fly life. Watch how the water moves and how it is likely to act upon your fly, leader and line. Above all, watch for rising fishing, thats what we are here for! Quite often a rising fish by its rising reveals whether it’s a tiddler or a bigger fish, maybe even that lunker of a lifetime. It’s not a foolproof clue and the best of us have been disappointed by the tiddler masquerading as a bigger brother, and equally surprised by what we assume is a modest brownie; but on sipping down the fly runs striping you to your backing, with a fight of your life on a 3wt rod and turns out to be a 7lb slab of gold.

7lb Trout Dwarfing the reel, returned shortly afterward to be caught another day

So we watch the the water, there is a hatch starting and now the occasional trout blipping taking the hatching Up-wing or Grannom….deep breath and lets just wait a moment longer wait till the brownies are taking confidently and regularly, you can watch as the same fish repeatedly rises, taking flies from the surface. When they are feeding consistently and focused on feeding the chance of a good take is now increased. I rarely cast a line till the hatch is properly under way and the fish are rising with confidence, it makes targeting of fish easier and often proves more successful.

I could talk longer still about tackle choices, weight of rod and line and of course, diameter and length of leader and tippet but I try not to bore the reader completely to tears.

In fishing as in life, it is so often all about being in the right place at the right time! but we can shorten these odd with a little preparation;

Knowing what is likely to be hatching and when

Match the hatch, imitation is rewarded

Patience! Wait, watch, listen then cast

explore; keep moving

mud your leader to reduce its visibility

Quite often you will find a perfuse hatch happening and the accompanying rising trout on an isolated stretch of the river or the hatch restricted to a particular pool yet down or upstream there be no hint at all of a hatch happening so keep moving and you will reap the reward.

2.5lb River Deveron Brown trout (taken Bridge of Marnoch beat on DHE)

After all we are fly fishers; not course fishers sitting on their backsides for hours on end. This early season really can be a time of plenty and good sized trout and after a long winter, casting a fly to a rising trout is truely magical.

  Help Get that Early season Success These early days of the trout season are some of my favourite times of the entire season, I love the early days the feeling of rebirth after the grey winter months were the rivers and its banks felt so lifeless and stark.

[pubz77]

Size 14 Woodcock and green spider #Flytying #northcountryspider #traditionalflytying #fishing #flyfishing #fliesforsale #riverfly (at Tipperary)

[pubz77]

Size 14 Woodcock and green spider #Flytying #northcountryspider #traditionalflytying #fishing #flyfishing #fliesforsale #riverfly (at Tipperary)

[pubz77]

Size 14 Woodcock and green spider #Flytying #northcountryspider #traditionalflytying #fishing #flyfishing #fliesforsale #riverfly (at Tipperary)

[pubz77]

Size 14 Woodcock and green spider #Flytying #northcountryspider #traditionalflytying #fishing #flyfishing #fliesforsale #riverfly (at Tipperary)

[fishing-exposed]

@paulprocter: No matter how often I see them, these gorgeous brindle winged flies turn me into a gibbering wreck every single time..! Female (l) and male (r). @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons @Riverflies #marchbrowns #newseason #spring #dryfly #flyfishing #fishing #trout #browntrout #troutbum https://t.co/3KY190o1f3

[fishing-exposed]

@paulprocter: It’s nice to pause and study our native trout…Cop for the convex profile on the eye of this wee #Cumbrian beauty. Mind those spots warrant mention too! @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons @Riverflies #salmotrutta #wildtrout #browntrout #flyfishing #fishing #fish #outdoors https://t.co/MNph9QcnzF

[fishing-exposed]

@paulprocter: Back on home turf and nice to be amongst #salmotrutta once more. @WildTroutTrust @SalmonTroutCons @Riverflies #browntrout #fish #trout #troutbum #wildtrout #fishing #flyfishing #outdoors #outdoorlife https://t.co/FdtjpYWukz