Great looking fly - just one problem - it might be too good.
I tied some Copydex Spent Gnats for use on Sheelin and when I showed them to Stuart McTeare I was crushed when he said that they'd be next to useless.
His logic was impeccable, how were the trout going to pick mine out amongst tens of thousands of naturals all looking pretty much the same. Mine would work in a sparse hatch (or more accurately "fall") but in the heavy hatches typical of Sheelin they would not be so good.
Use a big Grey Wulff said he, it's close enough to get them interested but they will pick it out from amongst the naturals - and they did!
__________________
“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”
Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary
|
Mayfly in my back garden
Linear Mode
