well im back in motivation with my fly tying, and I've got the thinking cap on too! after a recent thread discussion about the trouts eye view of a hook point (see this thread - http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying...ible-hook.html ) I decided to try my hand at a USD style. The USD styles that I have seen have been targeted at the imitation of a mayfly, so I though I would try it for a sedge. heres my effort;

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took the fly rod out today without the waders, I only had an hour or so and I thought my roll casting could be improved a little anyhow!

I managed a trout and a nice grayling from a fast riffle, both falling to a size 14 black beadhead hares ear. I dropped a couple of fish, one of which was a decent grayling over 2lbs, a bit of a gutter but I'll be back for her mark my words


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couldnt have gone much better, my afternoon lectures were cancelled so I decided to quench my thirst for some grayling on the fly.
I grabbed the gear and jumped on the bus, taking plenty of warm gear with me.

I tackled up at the river- I opted for a rolling nymph set up with 2 flies on the leader, 18 inches apart- a leadhead caddis on the point, a very heavy fly, and a lighter goldhead shrimp on the dropper. I started off in a shallow riffle- the water had good pace to...