| Natural
fly |
Matching artificial |
Usual angling method |
Best time to fish |
Where best to fish |
Useful comments |
|
Mayfly |
Mosely may |
Dry and Wet |
Daytime |
Shallows |
End of May |
|
Spent Gnat |
Spent
Gnat |
Surface
|
Evening |
Near
shores |
May-June |
|
Chironomids |
Black & Blue
Black Pennell |
Wet
Wet |
Forenoon and mid-afternoon
|
Shallows best |
Pupa very good |
Lake Olive
(cloeonsimile) |
As
in April plus Golden Olive |
As
in April |
All
day, evening fall of spinners |
Shallows
and near shores |
Dry
fly in calms |
Pale Watery
(centroptilum luteolum) |
Pale watery,
Little sky-blue dun |
Dry &
spent |
Evening
Evening |
Shorelines, calm bays
|
Spent patterns often
effective |
Claret Dun
(leptophebia vespertina) |
Claret
& Mallard,
Claret Nymph |
All
Wet |
All
day
All day |
Peaty
areas
Peaty areas |
Best
in boggy lakes |
Sedges
Great Red Sedge |
Murrough |
Dry and spent |
Dawn &
dusk |
Near shores, islands etc. |
End of May. Hatch in
deeps, swim to shore |
|
Green Peter |
Green
Peter,
Green Nymph |
AllWet |
Evening
Evening
|
Near
shores, islands etc. |
As above |
|
Black (Dark) Caperer |
Welshman's Button |
All |
Daytime |
Near shores, islands
etc. |
One of few day-flying
lake sedges. |
Silverhorns
(mystacides) |
Silver sedge,
Invicta,
Wickham's
Fancy |
Wet
Wet
Wet
|
Afternoon and evening |
Wherever hatch
is |
Females fly out
to lay in open water. |
|
Caenis |
Pale Watery |
Dry |
Dawn and Dusk |
Hatch or fall of spinners |
|
|
Waterboatman |
Corixa |
Wet |
All day |
Near
reeds, weedbeds etc |
Fish mid-surface |
|
Snail |
Black and Peacock |
Wet |
All day |
Near reed etc. |
Fish slowly just under surface. |
