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Try The Essential Fly for your trout fly manufacturers and stockists of a vast range of trout flies. From trout wet flies and traditional northern spiders to trout dry flies and Rainbow Trout lures and streamers. The artificial trout fly has been fished for hundreds of years, indeed the articifical fly was recorded by Claudius Aelian as the most primative form of fly fishing. However the Treatyse of Fyshynge with an Angle purblised in 1495 is regared as one of the earliest "modern" references to fly fishing. Indeed flies from the pamphlet include the a fly for March called Dun Fly which includes dun wool and wings of partridge, a Stonefly with bvody of black wool with yellow under the wings and tail and The Yellow Fly for May which included a body of yellow wool, wings of red cock hackle and of the drake, this could well be the Emphera danica or Mayfly.

Realistic Flies

Fly fishing has eveolved considerably since those days and now vast ranges of trout flies, bith imitative and suggestive exist for the Trout fly fisherman.

Imitative or exact imitative flies are intended to match the original natural fly or insect. Imitative or exact imitative flies is hard work as the fly tying demands anatomical perfection (exact imitation). The trouble is your fly may be an exact replica of say the grannom caddis but is only useful when that exact fly is about.

Suggestive or Impressionistic Flies

What does fly tying suggestive or fly tying impressionistic flies mean? Simple we are fly tying to create a food imitation that seems like the food. Tying flies that are impressionistic or suggestive is simpler to both fly tie and fish. Examples are GRHE, Gold Ribbed Hares Ear, Woolly Buggers or Muddler minnows.

Trout flies

There are thousands of different available, every fly fisherman has their own favourite based upon the season, water colours, species  of trout being sought and trout fishing techniques used.

Rainbow

The Rainbow Trout was originally introduced into the UK and also into New Zealand and Australia from the USA . The Rainbow Trout is used for stocking trout fisheries and for supplying the food industry. Mainly the Rainbow Trout remains contained in specific lakes, gravel pits, reservoirs etc. Escapees compete for food and habitat with Brown Trout. The Rainbow Trout will eat almost anything, from bottom-dwelling invertebrates, to fish and insects from the surface. As they mature they become increasingly piscivorous. Rainbow Trout have a high growth rate, but tend not to breed in the UK, as they require warm water temperatures. Another reason for no breeding is that now, most farmed fish are usually triploid and sterile - these use all their energy input for growth rather than  reproduction. Fishing flies for Rainbow Trout run from imitative flies like Caddis,  damsel nymphs or Epoxy minnow flies to impressionistive flies like GRHE flies and Pheasant Tail fishing flies through to flies like blob trout  fishing flies and lure flies or streamer fishing flies which do not look like anything natural but are fishing flies that trigger the Rainbow Trout's predatory nature!

Brown Trout Fishing Flies

The Brown Trout is a natural species of fish found in many rivers and occassionally in lakes and fisheries where these many be stocked by fishery owners.  Brown Trout are generally looking for trout flies that are immitative of the natural food found in their environment, it may be a Blue Winged Olive or Caddis or shrimp or Rhyacophila invertebrate nymph fishing flies look similar i.e. they are imitative or exact imitative of the naturate. With imitative trout flies the look similar to the natural  or invertebrates found. Generally imitative must be fished so that they look like the 'natural' i.e. when fishing dry such as a Blue Winged Olive they cannot be dragged across the current by the fly leader, after all natural Olive flies do not skate across the water.

Alternatively the trout flies may be suggestive fishing flies. Suggestive or impressionistic may be trout flies like the gold ribbed hares ear or pheasant tail, these trout flies do not imitate any invertebrates or natural but flies will appear to look and act like the natural food for the Brown Trout. Above 12" in size Brown Trout will prey heavily on fish so try using woolly bugger or epoxy minnow which are good imitators of small fish.