london lakes - recommended fly patterns

Dry Flies:

Red Spinner #12, #14
Black Spinner #12, #14
Orange Spinner #10, #12, #14
Chironomid #14, #16
Gum Beetle #14
Caenis #14, #16
Damsels #10, #12
royal Wulff #12, #14
Highland Dun Emerger #12, #14
Highland Dun #12, #14
Parachute Adams #12, #14
March Brown #12, #14
Red Tag #12, #14, #16
Black Muddler #8 #10
Mud Eye #8, #10
Garrett’s Orange and Black #16
Jossa’s Monstrosity #10
Jassid Hopper #14
Lyne’s Fancy #10, #12
Klinkhamer Special #12, #14
CDC #14, #16
Claret Dun #12, #14

Wet Flies/Nymphs:

Yeti Red and Black #8, #10
Mohawk Red and Black #8, #10
Woolly Bugger - Red and Black #8, #10/Green and Orange #8, #10
Montana Nymph - Yellow and Black #8, #10/Red and Black #8, #10
Sunset Fly #8
Rabbit Fur Fly #8, #10
Fiery Brown Beetle #14
Black Beetle #14, #16
Snail #14, #16
Stick Caddis #14
Queen of the Water #10
Prince Nymphs #12, #14
Damsel Nymnphs #10
Hares Ear and Copper #10
Pheasant Tail Nymph #12
Bead Heads Various #12, #14, #16
Bibio #10
Viva #10

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recommended patterns per month

August/September/October

Sunset Fly, Yetis, Mohawk, Woolly Bugger, Montana, Fiery Brown Beetle, Black Beetle, Snails, Stick Caddis, Rabbit Fur Fly, All Nymphs, Chironomid, Chironomid Emergers, Red Tag, Spinners (Rivers), Caenid (Lowland Lakes and Rivers)

November/December/January

Larger Spinners for Highlands Lakes, Highland Duns and Emergers, Black Muddlers, Mud Eyes, Caenis, Damsels, Lyne's Fancy, Klinkhammer Special, Iron Blue Dun, Claret Dun, Garretts Orange and Black

February/March/April

Add Gum Beetles, Jassid Hoppers and Hopper Patterns

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what they said...

"It’s the ideal of visual fishing that’s enshrined at London Lakes, creating what must be some of the finest stillwater dry fly fishing for wild fish in the world... Tasmania retaught me that the ultimate thrill and challenge of fly fishing is casting a fly to a feeding fish and fooling it into taking your matched artificial."
- Christopher Dawn, Editor, Trout Fisherman (United Kingdom), February, 1991

 

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