Evening Rise Sorted

23 July 2020 | Ann

Backgrounder to The Evening Rise

There are 3 different types of flies regularly hatching (sometimes prolifcally) at present on rivers. Upwinged flies (ephemeroptera) having hatches of Pale Watery Dun, Small Dark Olives and Blue Winged Olives which are all good sized food for trout. When these hatches occur they run from 15 minutes to occasionally as long as an hour. To match these, use our chart below and look to see if the naturals, when they are sat on the water, have their wings pointing upwards. Larger flies are easily identified if they are almost half an inch long with two tails - they should be Pale Wateries. Olive colour naturals with 3 wings will be Blue Winged Olives (BWO) and smaller upwings about a quarter of an inch long will be Small Dark Olives.

Major hatches of midges are also occurring. These can be an eighth to half an inch long. Look particularly for these on rivers with siltier bottoms and around large bends in the rivers where the water slows down and there is like to be more sediment. Griffiths Gnat is an excellent fly to use if you think they are midges.

The other hatch that could be occuring at this time in the evenings is the Cinammon Sedge which is about half an inch long. Try an Elk Hair Caddis or Balloon Caddis to match these. All the flies above are hatching gernerally in the evenings.

One final fly that may be hatching is the sand fly which is a member of the caddis family but bear in mind that the sand fly actually hatches throughout the day.

Research and Development Stage

We reviewed the species of the naturals, their various features (body lengths, body colour, wing colour, number of tails and then put together our suggested Essential Fly recommendations which we hope you will find beneficial!

So if you want to get more out of your evening fishing, ie catch more, read on!
Click on the fly names in the table below and you will go straight
to more information about each one.

Results Of Our Findings!

Time of Hatch	Body length inch	Body Colour	Wing Colour	No of Tails	Possible Species	Suggested Flies
Upwinged Ephemeroptera
Evenings	3/8	Light Brown	Clear	2	Pale Watery Dun	Lunns Particular
July to October Late pm	3/8	Olive brown	Dark Grey	3	Blue Winged Olive (BWO)	Barbless Blue Winged Olive Dark Cdc Blue Upright Olive Dry Blue Winged Olive
Evenings	3/8	Red Brown	Clear	3	Sherry Spinner (BWO Dun)	Blue Quill Spinner Blood
May to August Pm	1/4	Dark Olive	Mid Grey	2	Small Dark Olive Dun	Greenwells Glory

Caddis / Sedges
Evenings	1/2	Brown	Cinnamon		CInamon Sedge	Cinnamon Sedge
Flat Winged Flies
Late Evenings	1/8- 1/2	Black, Olive, Grey (Various)	Clear		Midges	Barbless Griffiths Gnat Barbless Mosquito IOTBB Barbless Knotted Midge