Out for a walk last week, quite a few Hawthorn Flies about,
The ones with the two dangly legs,
When they are about do Troots go daft for them?

You better believe it,If you don't have a simmilar fly you'll probably go home blank.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

It's particularly good when it's windy as they are rubbish flyers and get blown onto the water in bigger numbers.

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“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

Hi', Joe, I thought I saw a couple last Monday, but they blew past me on the Eden so quickly that I didn't even mention them to mrtrout, who was fishing at the time. On one of our local reservoirs, in hawthorn time, a bit later on in a normal spring, if the wind blows off the bank that I favour, a dry hawthorn cast out to the start of the ripple area can be very good. There is a line of small hawthorn trees, about thirty yards or so roughly parallel to the shoreline.
Hawthorns, black gnats and heather flies are nectar sippers, but you probably knew that. Cheers, TerryC