[Sandy Nelson]

Being on the river yesterday, had me fantisizing about the coming season and brought to mind another question we are often asked.
Which is where am i likely to find a good hatch of March Browns or Large Dark olives on the river, What type of water am i looking for?

We are all aware that between 1130 and 1400 during April and May, there is often a good hatch of these flies and this is the best opportunity for
catching decent size brownies on the dryfly, as they often drop their guard when this early season feast begins.

So rather than trying to describe the water again, i took some picture of the kind of water i would be looking for.
Hopefully it will help some of you to find a good hatch this year

This is perfect March Brown, LDO water



Sandy
 

[Mike Barrio]

Cool, excellent post ....... now what are the clues that we can see in the photo that would suggest this is a good place to sit back and wait for the hatch Sandy?

Cheers
Mike

[Sandy Nelson]

Firstly

The stretch just upstream of the rush you can see at the right is a fairly fast flowing rocky part of river which is home to the stone clinging nymphs of the march brown.
This part above also has a lot of ranunculus weeds which are home to the LDO nymphs. When the flies hatch they take between 30secs and 60 secs approx to struggle free of their shucks and take to the air. This gives them just enough time to  go through the rush and many end up cripple or drowned in the lovely deeper run you can see in the picture.

The water in the picture is a nice deep run which has slower water to either side, giving the fish two places to lie (the strip on either side between fast and slow)and a good flow of water
In which they can intercept at speed. The water is not so fast or rough that your flies shoot through with loads of drag, but a short line is still advantageous .
If you sit and wait, there will be a rise almost as soon as the first fly floats past, and suddenly this wee stretch of water that looked empty will suddenly come alive with fish.

Other that that to me it just looks right Thats why i took the photo, it seemed like a better idea than trying to describe it

Sandy

[Iain Goolager]

Been at the tying vise sorting out some LDO & March Brown nymphs....no big deal so far.

I've always been of the impression that March Browns can be represented by traditional GRHE's and PTN's (so I made up a variation using the best bits of both) this was fine until I scanned the Net for a true representation of the nymph only to find that it's a stoneclinger  I never knew that! 

perhaps I shopuld have read Sandy's previous post more thoroughly.

Iain
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