Whilst the warm weather continued at the start of the week, by its end cool northerlies and cloud were more reminiscent of Autumn. Cooler water now accumulated at the southerly pegs and trout were more willing than of late to chase pulled morsels. Daddylonglegs were quite effective with larvae metamorphosing into adults in the now damp grass. They worked either as female damsel imitations close to the margins or tweaked through a wave.
Pond olives are still showing, though not every day. Olive top hat emergers and small hares ear nymphs again proved reliable in this scenario.
Wicked white buzzers remain the pick of the midge pupal patterns though a variety of olive species still show in spoonings.
Sedges are showing more and more in the evenings so deer hair or cdc flies in brown are worth a try. Few anglers seem to pull sedge pupal copies though the trout clue into them on occasion. Invictas fill this role perfectly.
Fly box:
Wicked white buzzer
Olive top hat emerger
Green fly
Hares ear shuttlecock/Shipmans buzzer
Blue damsel
Diawl Bach
Deer hair sedge
Daddylonglegs
Black snake
Grey wulf
Shammy
Silver invicta
Olive cruncher
Brown klinkhamer