These sedges are about 20mm to 25mm long and have started to hatch out within the past week on the fishery i work in. I have tried to find out what they are but the best i can come up with is a caper. They start to hatch from about 9pm onwards. They were on the water this time last year too and when the trout turn on to them it makes very exciting fishing you want to see these things coming across the water.
Sorry about the crappy pics, anyone got any idea what they are?

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Looks like one for the end of a washing line

Yeah looks like a caperer but there may be local abberations for this lovely...going to say little fly but that is hardly appropriate

very nice post just goes to show even "bibles" need interpretation

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Clive M

Probably more likely to be the Great Red Sedge, Phrygania grandis or P. striata at this time of year. They fish them live on my local reservoir and they should be emerging about now, usually coinciding with the Caenis hatch, which makes for interesting fishing. Do you strip a dry Muddler, Murrough or sedge pattern across the surface or fish size 18-24 dries static? Decisions, decisions

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Carried it in full, then carry it out empty.

looks to me like a great red sedge....and its great to see the fish hammering these flys it's the best time of the year for me... i have had some big brownies fishing right into the dark when these boys are on the water.



wilkie

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Looks like great red sedge too me too, but is a tad early in year for lots of em in my part of the world.
Usually end of june before they appear in numbers, watching them skitter across the surface being chased by big bow waves is one of anglings highlights!!
regards
bert

Looks like good fish food

Great red sedge i think.
We get them hatching in the summer, they make a good wake.
Great fishing in the dark.


Munro

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Mick,

Many thanks. You have helped to solve a puzzle. Found one of these on my local water at Stonehaven, NE Scotland, yesterday. Did not see it flly or skitter across the water so it was difficult to identify picking it up dead from the water. The lochan gets a good hatch of red sedge but I have only ever caught fish on a dry sedge allowed to sink just below the surface.

Thanks for the help in identifying the beatie.

I would think at this time of year up around Stonehaven that sedge would more likely be a Large Cinnamon Sedge.

David.

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Thanks for all the help lads, the fish are only starting to turn on to these but if its anything like last year its going to make for some fantastic fishing .Had some serious fish last year pulling a G&H when the trout started taking these. The fish got so cute that they started taking these right at the bank, if i didn't know better i'd say they were waiting for them to crawl ashore!!! Funny enough there is hatch of caenis on the water at the moment also!

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Great red and Cinnamons have a tendancy towards mottling or darker veins and cinnamons should have a dark bar

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an interesting mix of apathy and panic

Clive M