Fishing Flies

There are thousands of different fishing flies available, every fly fisherman has their own favourite fishing flies based upon the season, water colours, species being sought and fishing techniques used.

Fishing Flies - Salmon

Unlike the Rainbow Trout, we do not catch salmon because it wants a fly assuming it to be food but because we are stimulating its predatory nature. We can trigger the salmon's predatory nature using traditional fishing flies like Green Highlander or Silver Doctor imitative flies like Red Francis or Ally's shrimps or patterns that resemble shrimp based patterns through to modern fishing flies like monkey tube flies or sunray shadow tube flies which use ultra-mobile materials like cashmere goat for maximum movement  that may look like a small fish to the predatory salmon.

Pacific salmon fishing flies vary considerably from the Atlantic Salmon flies, egg flies imitating the egg roe through to glorious technicolour lures and streamer flies in pinks and purples, some even imitating for example dead salmon flesh!

Brown Trout Flies

The Brown Trout is a natural species of fish found in many rivers and occassionally in lakes and fisheries where these many be stocked by fishery owners.  Brown Trout are generally looking for flies that are immitative of the natural food found in their environment, it may be a Blue Winged Olive or Caddis dry flies or shrimp or Rhyacophila invertebrate nymph fishing flies look similar i.e. they are imitative or exact imitative. With imitative fishing flies the fishing flies look similar to the natural flies  or invertebrates found. Generally imitative flies must be fished so that they look like the 'natural' i.e. if fishing dry flies such as a Blue Winged Olive they cannot be dragged across the current by the fly leader, after all natural Olive flies do not scate across the water.

Alternatively the fishing flies may be suggestive fishing flies. Suggestive or impressionistic flies may be fishing flies like the gold ribbed hares ear or pheasant tail, these fishing flies do not imitate any invertebrates or natural flies but flies will appear to look and act like the natural food for the Brown Trout. Above 12" in size Brown Trout will prey heavily on fish.

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