Traditional Drys
Dry fly fishing is probably the most challenging of fly fishing methods, it definitely is most fun and matching the hatch is an art which needs to be perfected when dry fly fishing. Select your dry fly to mimic the insect life around you, matching the hatch is quite easy if you take some time to observe which flies are around and if indeed the trout are rising out of the water to take them.
Hackled dry flies are best fished with a small amount of floatant to help keep them from being water logged and a more buoyant consistency.
Model: 402-3
The black gnat dry fly is an excellent trout fly to use when any small dark or black insects or the real flies are on the water. Clouds of black gnats can often be seen hovering over the water and it is inevitable that some of these will fall into the water, thus becoming a food source for the trout..
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Model: 404-2
The black and Red Gnat fly, tied the same as the black gnat trout fly but with the red tail. Trout will get excited at the red tail on these black gnat flies. Always worth a try if you are failing on traditional black gnat trout flies...
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Model: 402-4
The traditional black spider dry fly , you would not be without it ! The black spider trout flies are an impressionistic pattern. The soft hackle on the black spider fly represents the legs and wings of a subsurface insect, but it is the movement in these trout flies that make them work..
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Model: 406-2
Spinner trout flies are when the adult flies have mated, layed their eggs and died. Harry Powell, a barber from the Usk valley, was well know fly tier in the 1920's who created this pattern, an excellent dry fly that has taken many trout in each of the 80 plus seasons.The spinner dry flie..
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Model: 402-2
The Dry black ant dry fly one of the most popular insects. Trout and grayling will always feed on the Black Ant Fly and is useful right through the season. The Fly is a terrestrial insect that in the heat of the summer months are occasional seen to fly and swarm. A good addition to your dr..
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Model: 405-5
The blue dun trout fly is an excellent choice for your fly box, great for trout and grayling. The Blue Dun Fly is really an early season fly and best fished perhaps spring to early summer. But it is such a stretched imitation of a Mayfly it really does work all year round. the blue dun dry fly is a ..
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Model: 417-1
The Olive Dun Trout Flies are a must for your fly box all year round. Olive Dun Flies are found in rivers all over the UK and as the dun flies hatch all year you never know when you will need them...
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Model: 411-3
Bradshaws fancy is a popular Grayling Fly. It is an old pattern which has stood the test of time, greyling will always go for Red, try also the red tag...
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Model: 405-8
The Caenis Trout Fly is good all round dry fly, useful on rivers. Monitor for the direction and speed the fish are travelling at, once you have done that it is simply a case of putting the caenis fly where the fish will be next. Make sure you cast it accurate as the fish will be feeding close to the..
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Model: 409-5
The coachman fly is a great dry trout fishing fly to use on windy days to seek out trout and will often succeed in such conditions where other flies fail. The coachman flies are a popular dry fly and available in a choice of sizes. Coachman flies are also available as a wet fly, in a choice of sizes..
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Model: 409-6
The Coch- y- bonddu fly is a famous Welsh pattern which represents a beetle found in Wales and most of the UK. These beetles are usually found in wild areas with poor vegetation. Perhaps best in early summer trout and grayling will both go for the coch-y-bonddhu trout fly..
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Model: 404-3
Th Dark Olive Dry Trout Fly is a popular dry fishing fly the dark olive is an imitation of the blue winged olives. Slightly darker than the olive dun the Dark Olive Dry Flies come in a choice of sizes...
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