It's something like a male pale watery spinner but I think it should have yellow eyes to be one of them
I never was much good at entymology

You need to wash your hands


Andy

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I think I just p*ssed myself at that comment.......utterly out of left field


and, yet, there was me looking for a hook in the darn thing until I realised the fellow was palming an actual live insect and not a 'fly'

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Iron blue spinner.

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Ahh! A jenny spinner, its all coming back to me now


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Definitely a Jenny Spinner, the male Iron Blue spinner. Four of the small olive spinners ( baetidae) are pretty similar at first glance. They all have the 3 dark 'bum' segments, and dark thoraces (chests ), some darker than others, and the bums vary a lttle in shade. Jenny Spinner has the darkest, anthracite black, usually. The Jenny's eyes are dark, reddish-brown, while Pale Watery spinner has the brightest yellow eyes in the olive family. Small Spurwing male spinner eyes are more orange-yellow. In my experience, eyes of the Small Dark Olive male spinner, July Dun ( female is Little Red ) are more of a red-orangey colour; but these colours are not entirely reliable in all instances. Cheers. TC

Don't bother tying an imitation of it, spiders eat them but the fish don't get chance as they die away from the water.

richard

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Well Said Richard. Practically all of the anglers' names for upwinged species are descriptive of the females --- Red Spinner, Great Red Spinner, Little Amber, Little Claret, Sherry Spinner etc --- as the spent males usually end up in the grass. Spider bait. Which reminds me, looking for spiders' webs is often one of the first things I do at the river side, or at the lodge of a still water fishery. As you will know, they are like a catalogue of the previous day's hatches at times, depending upon the wind direction, if there has been any wind. TC

So what do I have here
I thought they were both pale waterys but going by eye colour I'm not so sure, is the second one a small spurwing? (second and third photo's are the same fly from different angles)









Cheers


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I have no idea what it is I will say though they are cracking pictures

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