| The Walker's mayfly nymph is a weighted fly | | | | ferox trout which are cannibals and feed on their |
| which imitates the emerging mayfly before it | | | | smaller brethren-and are usually caught on lures |
| crawls out of the water and flies away. It | | | | and spinners-not flies. |
| therefore is not dry and sinks. These are cast | | | | Downstream wet fly fishing for trout on a fast |
| upstream in front of a fish and 'tweaked' or | | | | moving river on a summer's evening is indeed a |
| gently retrieved often with great success-they | | | | pleasure, brown trout and grayling will both be |
| are ideal on a chalk stream when the fish are not | | | | there to pit your wits against. Wet fly fishing for |
| rising. This is usually the only acceptable form of | | | | trout and grayling in rivers and streams of the |
| wet fly fishing for trout on the major chalk | | | | West Country and Wales is particularly good. |
| streams. | | | | Wet fly fishing for trout in Ireland has its many |
| Wet fly fishing for trout in general is practised in | | | | opportunities. Most rivers and streams hold brown |
| fast water when the current does the work or in | | | | trout and there is lots of free fishing. The Irish |
| still waters when the fly is cast downstream and | | | | lakes hold some very large trout and boats and |
| slowly retrieved. | | | | ghillies are available on the famous lakes such as |
| Wet fly fishing for trout involves lighter flies which | | | | Corrib, Conn and Mask. |
| are cast downstream into pools or lies where fish | | | | There are good numbers of small man made 'put |
| are expected to be. This method is used at night | | | | and take' fisheries up and down the country. |
| for sea-trout, or sewin as they are known in | | | | Some are excavated especially for trout fisheries |
| Wales. | | | | others are chalk and gravel pits which have been |
| Wet fly fishing for trout in reservoirs and still | | | | stocked. In the main, these waters are stocked |
| waters involve much bulkier flies which are cast | | | | with Rainbow Trout which are not indigenous but |
| out long distances and retrieved .The flies imitate | | | | hail from the Rockies in the west of the USA. |
| various bugs and even perch fry which the big | | | | Rainbows can tolerate higher water temperatures |
| rainbow trout hoover up in vast quantities in the | | | | and lower oxygen content in the water than the |
| spring. Still waters are on the whole stocked with | | | | indigenous Browns and also can grow very quickly. |
| rainbow trout which feed on bugs and fish fry and | | | | Some waters are stocked with fish of over 15 |
| in the big reservoirs such as Bewl Water, Chew, | | | | pounds. |
| Blagdon, Rutland Water and Grafham Water grow | | | | The flies for these still waters imitate all sorts of |
| to a large size and are extremely powerful-hence | | | | bugs and fish that live in the lake and some look |
| great to fish for. On these large waters wet fly | | | | nothing like anything living there but still catch fish! |
| fishing for trout is usually done from boats since | | | | These fisheries offer the wet fly fisherman great |
| the levels will fluctuate and this leads to muddy | | | | opportunities to improve casting select the right |
| banks when the water level drops. | | | | fly and catch very big fish. |
| In the natural lakes in the Lake District, Scotland | | | | We plan to offer information about these fisheries |
| and Ireland brown trout give good sport on | | | | which will be a free service to the fishery |
| retrieved wet flies; often fished in groups of | | | | owners-so keep visiting us. |
| three. These lakes also contain the large brown | | | | |