Terrestrial Trout Food - Beetles

Warm to hot conditions are a key ingredient to numbers of beetles coming out of the ground or swarming around trees, taking to the air and landing on the water. Iin gusty to strong winds they are blown onto the water also.

Fly fishing strategy

Red tags, foam beetles, little black beetle patterns, coch-y-bondhu. Where beetles are accumulated in lanes, laying your fly in the trout's path on the upwind side is generally a safe bet.

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Fly fishing Tasmania - techniques for catching trout when beetles are about.