Fishing down on the Kennet on one of ACW's days, bumped into an English guy who had just come back from a few months fishing and guiding in NZ. Naturally inquisitive. I asked the lad (Andy) to have a look inside his fly box. This guy has just had an article published in one of the UK fly mags. He spoke very honestly and with a passion and this is what we saw..........

The flies as you guess are large, like the flies in the US, we were assured that they all worked well.
Don't know if this Andy saw them work on the Kennet today but saw him with a bent rod on a couple of occasions!