Spring time in the UK always gets me thinking about the lessons I learned while fly fishing for trout the previous season. In my area the river fly fishing season starts early March although there are variations so, if you are planning to fish, please check local regulations. This can be done through the Environment Agency.
So, what fly fishing lessons did I learn last year?
Well, one of my favourite techniques for fly fishing early season is to fish North Country spiders known as soft hackles to any American readers. My normal set up when fishing this style is to use a leader of around ten foot (3 mtrs) with three flies, two on droppers set around eighteen inches (45 cm) apart and a point fly. I will usually use a small bead headed nymph as the point fly just to help the spiders get down to the depth where the fish are feeding. One of things you need to remember with this method is the deeper the fish are, the heavier the point fly needs to be.
Last season, while fly fishing on one of my local rivers using the method outlined above, I spotted a fish rising right at the head of the pool. I changed my point fly to an emerger pattern to match the Large Dark Olives (Baëtis Rhodani) that were hatching at the time. When I clipped off the bead head nymph to tie on the emerger, I decided to leave the two droppers with the spider/ soft hackle patterns still attached to my leader rather than snip them off, dropper and all, as I usually would. I was still a few casts away from the head of the pool. I started to cast my way upstream towards the rising fish at the head of the pool. This is when I discovered the genius of this set up. Before I even got close to the rising fish, I had brought three good trout of around the 1 lb (500 g) mark and a couple of smaller fish to the net. All of these trout had come to one or other of the North Country Spiders. The emerger pattern was helping to keep the two spider patterns high enough in the water so they sat just below the surface. To me it was obvious the trout liked the way they were presented with the artificial flies when using this set up.
Now I was approaching the head of the pool, I could still see the fish rising and I also noticed that it was indeed feeding just below the surface rather than right on the very top. You could tell this as its head never broke the surface as it was feeding, just its dorsal fin and tail.
I cast upstream of the trout careful to land my leader so that the top dropper was a couple of feet in front of the trout and the tip of my fly line was behind it. Now for the moment of truth! The spider pattern on my top dropper was ignored completely, but as the fly on the middle dropper was just in front of where I had spotted the fish, there was a slash and a swirl and I could see the emerger on my leader point disappearing as it was pulled underwater by the force of the fish swallowing down the submerged spider pattern on the middle dropper. I lifted the rod to find that the fish was hooked. After a quick tussle I brought the trout to hand. It was around 17 inches (39 cm) long and weighed in at around 1 ½ lb. I am now looking forward to seeing, once again, if this really is an effective early season tactic for catching brown trout.
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