Yesterday evening I finally witnessed my first, full on, no holds barred hatch of caenis. It was quite something. There were thousands of the litter blighters coming off the loch. A few score settled on me to change into spinners, which was amazing to watch.

Wait till you get them up your nose!!!!

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It is in truth not glory,nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting,but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with his life.(Declaration of Arbroath, 1320)

Aye the wee baisterts get every where,hope there is a hatch tonight

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Silversedge
LETS TACKLE CANCER SUPPORTER
"MON THE HILL CLIMBERS!!"

You having a laugh!!!
I hate the wee beggers
Manage to get a few at the start of the rise on a 16/18 pt nymph, then I am driven to despair trying to cope with the adult hatch.

Still trying to crack it but sometimes I wonder if it is worth the high blood pressure

Going to try 3 size 18 grey dusters 10 inches apart and see if the trout fancy that.

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It is in truth not glory,nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting,but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with his life.(Declaration of Arbroath, 1320)

Thats the beauty of it Graham,just when you think you have cracked it,next night,hee haw!

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Silversedge
LETS TACKLE CANCER SUPPORTER
"MON THE HILL CLIMBERS!!"

Well, you'll have gathered I'm not hugely experienced with caenis hatches, but following advice on here, I offered the fish something different:

A size 14 grey paradun emerger type thing (a "red irresistible", I think it's called) did the job and got me my first. But it was twisting my leader something rotten and it was getting too gloomy to deal with that. So I replaced it with a size 14 black bob's bits - just since I've had luck with that before. I had luck again. Finally, it was getting too dark to see the fly so I decided to draw a G&H sedge back, figuring I could watch it's wake, or if I couldn't see the wake, I would at least feel any takes. That worked too and I called it a night at that point. All wild brownies of about a pound - decent size for the water I was on.

Of course, I don't know for sure if the fish were "locked on" to the caenis or not, but there were certainly plenty fish rising when the hatch was on, and when there was a lull in the hatch, there was a lull in the rises... so there was some correlation between rising and the hatch.

Neil