BWO (Serratella Ignita)

It's almost as if Summer is here! With the higher temperatures, evenings have been the best approach and I have been visiting the river for just a couple of hours ~ usually starting about 8pm. There is plenty of water in the river (cannot remember when I could last write that!) and it has made for some very interesting fishing. However there has been only sporadic surface activity. Whilst fish can be tempted to the dry, it is spiders that have been working well. Right into the darkness as the Blue Winged Olive Spinner fall really gets going.

A pretty, wild fish taken just into darkness

The Partridge & Orange - doing all the damage at the moment

It is interesting that a sparse hackle seems to be outfishing it 'fuller' brother.

~Dave