With the weather getting warmer, the days longer and the vegetation in full bloom, it is starting to crawl everywhere near the water!
Fish haven’t yet fully noticed this new food source, but insects are swarming everywhere. Only few rings from rising fish are seen on the surface, and it is hard to tell to which of the many insects this fish has risen?
I am not yet a great expert when it comes to the identification of insects. I choose my flies mostly by comparing them to the real insects in color, shape and size… but this was hard with the wind blowing, and insects moving fast over the water.
My luck changed immediately, when I caught one of the swarming insects with my hand and realized, that this was some sort of Baetis, darker and smaller than the pattern I had fished up to then. So I chose a sparsly tied variant of a brown CDC-deerhair-dun, and from then on I had one take after the other! The fish were mostly small browns, the biggest one in the last light of the day measuring some 25cm… But it was great fun on light tackle, and I am really looking forward to the next weeks: THE BIG ONES SHOULD BE RISING SOON!