Just read Watsons Fancy's thread on Rutland fly life with interest.. I was driving home from Lln Vyrnwy on Tuesday evening... and as I passed Oswestry.. Wrexham.. Chester, it occured to mat that there was more bugsplat on my windscreen that evening than in the last few year put together! Anyone else noticed this?

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Yes mate, my ole' fruit...

Noticed it today, in the van, with its feasably large windscreen, getting pebbledashed with the increasing amount of fly life!

I remember passing the Eden about 5 yrs back and having to close the window of the car because of the fly life gettin inhaled!!!

Obviously there was a dull spell, with very little fly life in the air over the last few years, which has been commented on before now.....

Is this a sign that things are improving?, as I distinctly remember the fly life being very 'thin on the ground' over the last 2 years....

Surely others have noticed?

GC

I hope so Carl... it bodes well for 'real' fishing

The annual numbers for individual fly species/families are generally cyclical.. boom or bust, feast or famine, I think we all know that. In recent years however, I've hardly noticed a single casualty on my windscreen... We did a 1000 mile round trip last August to fish Loch Watten... not a single dollop of jam and custard! Not so many years ago one would have needed scrapers and dangerous chemicals to remove all the hapless victims after only a hundred miles! Tuesday nights collection of casualties took some cleaning I can tell ye! Was kinda happy about it though

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It can only be a good thing mate, surely?

Like you, I remember having to soak the front of the Supra with cloth's soaked in all manner of weird and wonderful potions and lotions, just to get 50% of the 'bugsplat' off the bumper/windscreen!

Mind you doing the speeds I was, nowt would've lived if I'd hit it!

Stocks tomorrow for Me & Stevie, nee ginked up blobs I Hope.

Even have the #3 packed!

GC

Maybe that's all there is to it Carl? !! ......I'm just driving too slow in my old age

Have a goodun with Stevie tomorrow. Somehow I don't think you'll be needing them Polar Bears

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Too much Saturn, not enough Moon.

Buzzers 2012


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