My key tip is to make sure you are fishing deep enough. If you aren’t occasionally touching the bottom you need to use heavier flies or even add a split shot or tungsten putty to your leader.

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Here’s my best trout flies for March and some of the most common hatches starting with the Large Dark Olive.

The Large Dark Olive will start to trickle off the river in March especially if we get a little decent weather. It’s an essential fly to have for March in both nymph and a dry fly.

Imitations of the large dark olive: 

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September can be a great month for fly fishing and comparable to spring fishing in some respects. Fly anglers will welcome the return of decent hatches of the Large Dark Olive. This upwing fly is a firm favorite of trout and grayling and can provide some wonderful dry fly fishing through September.

Both the nymph and the dun are worth imitating, the spinner which lays her eggs underwater and also the male spinner can be pretty much ignored as the rarely present themselves to the fish. The large dark olive can be one of the best flies for fly fishing in September and it’s essential to have some patterns ready to go.

Here’s are our favorites:

Nymphs

Pheasant Tail Hares Ear
Cinnamon Spider
Pheasant Tail Original

Dry & Emerger

Olive Dun
Olive Klinkhammer
Olive Sulphur Comparadun

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With the river fly fishing season only a few weeks away, it’s time to think about the first major hatches of the year. The Large Dark Olive is one of our most abundant up-wing flies and is present on most rivers and streams in the UK.

Luckily for us fly fishers, it is present is sufficient numbers that fish are used to the fly and will take enthusiastically both a nymph and a dry. Although sporadic hatches of the fly can occur all year round March should see the first major hatches and rises.

Be sure also to have some nymph imitations too as trout will hoover up nymphs as they are ascending to hatch.

On the still waters, with the current cool weather, fish are likely to be sulking near the bottom waiting for the warmer water of spring to increase their metabolisms. Sinking lines are most likely required with natural patterns such as the bloodworm or shrimps being the food source. Alternatively, bright blobs and boobies fished on short leaders will make good attractor patterns if fished down near the lake bed.

Tight lines for the new season!

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