Hi folks,

What's in your fly box for early season fishing on both the river & lakes?

Cheers

Simon

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I've been grabbed by the shorb & furleys.

This will be a good and interesting thread


but in my box are Griffith gnats, Cdc & Elk, Hares ear nymphs, Flash bak and normal PTN's and klinks and more klinks

been doing really well on small buzzers(size 18!!) with a tungsten bead head in black, orange and olive. fished really slow on a floating line, also tied a few with etherfoam heads, fished on the top with similar results.

To state the obvious



Flies

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Only fish stillwater so minkies, foam beetles, just bought some poppers, PT nymphs. To be honest the list is very long as I tie many different types of flies in small amounts. Probably be easier to take a picture of my box

Black & silver buzzers weighted and so on, black gnats dry and wet.
Hare's ears weighted and so on, ptns again weighted and so on.

By weighted and so on I mean bead heads.

Stillwaters and reservoirs - Don't underestimate the power of green and black. For some reason it works. I have had success on a humungus with fluoro green body, black tail and grizzle hackle as far as a lure is concerned.

Rivers - i'm not best placed to comment but large Dark Olives and March Browns seem to be the ones to imitate and has been said klinkhammers with a nymph under seems a popular method.

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Location - Ospreylia

Fished stillwaters over the last week and had good success with Damsels/sink tip line and also with black Buzzers/floating line & indicator.


cheers Diarmid.

It's quite interesting to see the regional variations across the nation, I do need to get some black spiders, gnats & the like in my box though.

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I've been grabbed by the shorb & furleys.

Orange lures for stillwaters, Blobs and Nomads especially. Also small buzzers (size 14 & 16) with an indicator.