A question for the river guys.

[mayflyjunky]

I seen a tasty looking Dry March Brown pattern in a book last night.

The wing is tied at the usual Adams position.

Is it worth while tying these flies in the complete spent position as well???

Would river trout ever have a preference to take spent wings over upright wings????

This is my first ever Dry March Brown as seen in the book.
Any pointers???
What about the proportions???

Thanks for your help guys.
Sorry about the picture. A combination of cr@p camera and even worse photographer.

[flyfishwithme]

mfj,
I would tie a March Brown as nymph, an emerger, the dry and in a spent stage albeit I may change the spent pattern to represent a spinner. Just alter the body material to a stripped peacock herl or something similar.

[mayflyjunky]

Originally Posted by flyfishwithme

mfj,
I would tie a March Brown as nymph, an emerger, the dry and in a spent stage albeit I may change the spent pattern to represent a spinner. Just alter the body material to a stripped peacock herl or something similar.

Cheers for that

Answers a whole load of questions.

[ickypimp]

I would also say yes.. i have had sessions where the trout will be focussed in on only spent flies.... be prepared and all that

[g bigtrout]

Any pics P ?...Thinking on getting back to the rivers just mite add this to my armory.

Another other thing is that the trout also go for crippled and stuck emergers, so a spinner often works in a hatch.

[Buzz]

My experience differs from most folks comments above.

March Brown rises are often sporadic and can last literally few minutes, they often happen when there is a brief break in the cloud and all hell breaks loose for 10 mins, toss pretty much anything at them, even a pot noodle and they will have it.

Now i am talking about freestone rivers up here in Scotland but i have never seen them taking spinners, ever, maybe its different in the green and pleasant pastures of the South.

I wouldn,t worry about the pattern overly just make sure it looks venerable (maybe a sunk ****) and has movement.

Having said that i would love to see what patterns others use.

[g bigtrout]

Cheers for pic P...pops used to tie one with red floss body silver rib and think the hackle was more ginger he called it a red spinner....never gave me any though...he caught loads of fish on it and looked same shape as yours with no wing though.

[jonnied17-2008]

peter that is a lovely tie. Ive only seen a couple of march brown hatches and they were sporadic- and I didn't stay long enough to see any sort of spinner fall. When the natural duns are on the water they tend to sit with the wings upright. Hope this helps! Are they grip hooks by any chance?

[mayflyjunky]

Originally Posted by jonnied17-2008

peter that is a lovely tie. Ive only seen a couple of march brown hatches and they were sporadic- and I didn't stay long enough to see any sort of spinner fall. When the natural duns are on the water they tend to sit with the wings upright. Hope this helps! Are they grip hooks by any chance?

Yes mate they are, love em. Deadly sharp points, the only problem is the points are not too tying thread friendly

You should ask Spidersplus for commision