My Fly Box

My Fly Box is determined by my home-waters: trout and grayling rivers and streams where the predominant food forms are caddis, stoneflies, midge and terrestrials. Mayflies are abundant, but the Welsh Dee is really a "caddis river".

Dry Search Patterns

Royal Wulff; Grey Wulff;  Annihalator; Parachute Adams; Adams; F fly;  all in sizes 12 to 16.

Caddis

Peeking caddis; La Fontaine cased caddis; Sparkle pupa; Krystal flash Green Rock worm; Deer and Elk Hair caddis; Goddard; Ginger Quill Wing caddis; F sedge.

Wets

Hen Blackie; Partridge and Orange; Partridge and Yellow; Waterhen Bloa, Blae and Harelug, Purple and Snipe; Cran Swallow; Crow and Silver; Grey Hen and Rust; Grey Hen and Olive; Cowdung; Black Spider; Olive Spider; Grannom; Tupps Indispensable; Greenwell (winged and spider); March Brown Spider; Hare's Ear Flymph. 

Nymphs

PTN; PTN flashback; Stoneclinger imitations;  Brassie; Herl nymph; Czech.

Emergers

Olive Sparkle dun; CDC Olive dun; Little Olive flymph;

Duns

BWO; Greenwell dry; Blue Quill; Quill Gordon; Thorax duns; Compara duns including pale morning and watery.

Stoneflies

Sofa pillow; Polly Rosborough adult; Blae & Harelug.

Midge

Griffiths gnat; Syl's; Blood worm, Blood yarn larvae; Black midge to size 24. 

Leeches

Olive marabou; Egg-sucking; Olive CDC.

Streamers

Muddle Minnow; Woolly Bugger (black and olive); Black Matuka; CDC streamers. 

Terrestrials

Ants (bivisible) foam and winged; Caterpillars (larger griffiths gnat).