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Browntrout
Fly Guide
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RIVER FLY GUIDE
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fly |
Matching artificial |
Usual angling method |
Best time to fish |
Where best to fish |
Useful comments |
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Olives; most of those as in April plus;Pale
watery (centroptilum luteolum) |
Sky-blue dun,
Blue quill |
DryDry |
Daytime |
Follow hatch |
In warm weather at dusk |
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Pale evening dun (procloeon rufulum) |
Pale watery |
Dry |
Evening |
Slower
stretches |
Best in hot weather |
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Blue-winged olive (ephemerella ignita) |
Blue-winged olive,
Orange quill,
Blue-winged
olive nymph,
Sherry spinner |
Dry
Dry
Wet
Dry |
Afternoon
and
evening
Evening |
At
emergence
Where
spinners fall |
Late May |
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Mayfly (ephemera danica) |
Mosely May,
Grey drake,
Spent gnat |
Dry
Dry
Wet |
Daytime
Daytime
Evening |
At emergence |
Spent patterns
often best |
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Yellow evening dun |
Yellow evening dun |
Dry,
wet &
nymph |
Dusk |
Quicker lime stone rivers |
Wet fly good in fast water |
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Yellow may dun |
Yellow may |
Dry |
Daytime |
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Caenis (caenis) |
Tiny pale watery |
Dry |
Dawn and
dusk |
Slower stretches |
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SedgesGreat red sedge (phryganea) |
Murrough,
Red sedge |
DryDry |
Evening
Evening |
Wherever
they emerge |
Any
large bushy fly will do |
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Alder (sialis) |
Alder |
Dry |
Daytime |
At emergence |
Land-bred – fall on water |
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Grey flag |
Grey flag |
Dry |
Daytime |
Quicker stretches |
Spent good in evening |
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Black caperer |
Welshman’s button |
Dry |
Daytime |
At emergence |
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Reed smut (simulium) |
Black gnat |
Dry |
Daytime |
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Falls on water |
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Hawthorn (bibio marci) |
Hawthorn |
Dry |
Daytime |
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Falls on water |
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Quick
Guide to rivers
in Ireland
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select a region for a detailed guide to the fly fish rivers in that
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