Flies When To Use

MARCH TO APRIL

NAME OF FLY

March Brown
Teal & Black
Greenwell’s Glory
Dark Olive
Iron Blue Dun
Blae & Hare Lug (ear)
Hen Blackbird
Woodcock & Hare Lug
Starling Tip
Blae & Black
Silver Dorking

HOOK SIZE

10, 12, 14
14
14
14
14, 16
14
14
14,16
16
14
14

 

APRIL TO MAY

NAME OF FLY

Dark Olive
Greenwell’s Glory
Light Olive
Medium Olive
Iron Blue Dun
Sand Fly – Female
Greentail or Grammon
Guinea Fowl
Teal & Red
Yellow May Dun
Black Spider

HOOK SIZE

14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14, 16
16

 

JUNE

NAME OF FLY

Crane Swallow
Blue Winged Olive
Ginger Quill
Yellow May Dun
Greentail or Grammon Teal & Red
Guinea Fowl
Grey Drake/Drake Spider
Small Sedge
Partridge Tail
Cow Dung
Bald Coot
Shell Fly
Double Knotted Midge Gull Blae

HOOK SIZE

14, 16
14
14
12, 14
14
14
14
14
14, 16
16
14, 16
18, 20
16

 

JULY

NAME OF FLY

Red Quill
Blue Winged Olive
Orange Quill
Lark and Grey
Teal & Red
Crane Swallow
Guinea Fowl
Blue Dun
Dark Silver Horn – Male
Silver Horn – Female
Teal & Red

HOOK SIZE

14, 16
14, 16
14, 16
14
14
14
14
14
14, 16
14, 16
14

 

AUGUST

NAME OF FLY

August Dun Spider
August Dun/Wet Winged
Blae & Ginger
White Dip (Duck Tip)
Partridge Tail
Red Tag (Spider)
Yellow Mavis
Teal & Red
Heather Fly
Dark Olive

HOOK SIZE

12, 14
12, 14
14
14,16
16
14, 16
14
14
14
14

 

SEPTEMBER

NAME OF FLY

Pale Watery Dun
Spent Willow
Iron Blue
Medium Olive
Blae & Ginger
White Tip or Duck Tip
Crane Swallow
Pale Olive
Teal & Black

HOOK SIZE

16
14
14, 16
14
14
14, 16
14, 16
14
14

 

RECOMMENDED DRY FLIES TO BE USED ON THE UPPER AVON.

MARCH TO APRIL

NAME OF FLY

Badger & Yellow
Scotch Grey
Dark Spring Olive Spider
Iron Blue Dun Spider
March Brown Spider
Greenwell’s Spider

HOOK SIZE

14 – 16
14 – 16
14
16
10 – 12
14 – 16

 

MAY ONWARDS

NAME OF FLY

Pale Watery Spider
Black Spider
Medium Olive
Sand Fly Spider
Blue Winged Olive
Pale Evening Dun
Pheasant Tail

HOOK SIZE

14 – 16
14 – 16
16
14 – 16
14 – 16
14 – 16
14 – 16

Many Thanks to Jim Delaney of the Nathan Valley Angling Association for allowing this article to be reproduced in full.

Glengavel Water joins the Avon Water by James B Brown

Glengavel Water joins the Avon Water by James B Brown

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