Something simple for the Grayling

[AlanB]

It's getting to that time of year here; just hope I get the chance to go after some grayling. There are none in my area finding some means a trip of at least 100 mile south. Strange for a fish that inhabits colder water than trout, which are more than plentiful here.

These are just wire (two colours), tying thread and Diamond Hard UV resin over the back. Although they are not heavy they will sink very quickly. That gives me the choice of fishing them as Czech nymphs or hanging them below a dry.

Cheers,
A.

[Rick Z]

Look good. Hope you get some grayling.
Pre fly fishing days in Alaska I caught some.
Rick

[AlanB]

Rick, Probably a different sub species. Up there you would get Thalamus Arcticus. Here we get Thalamus Thalamus. Not a huge difference. Here it extends our fishing through the winter, the trout season extends from March or April to the end of September. Without the grayling it would mean putting the rods away for the winter. Its either grayling or stocked rainbows in ponds through the winter.

Cheers,
A.

[ScottP]

Alan,

Very nice fly. Would a dearth of your strain of grayling be a HypoThalamus, and an excess a HyperThalamus?

Regards,
Scott

[FishnDave]

Those look really great!

[redietz]

What, no pink?

[AlanB]

No, no pink. One of the rivers I hope to fish is the Derbyshire Wye. Pete, an old friend who owns a local tackle shop in Bakewell, tells me that pink has been done to death down there and green is now the must have colour. Hence the green.
Cheers,
A.

[redietz]

I was somewhat kidding. There seems to be an almost mystical belief that the "ladies" like pink.

[AlanB]

Well 10 years back a small caddis pupa (18 - 20) with a definite pink tinge in it was lethal on the Wye.

I'd been trying to show a friend how to fish up stream nymph. One evening on the Wye I gave him a a small pink caddis pupa and he caught his first fish up stream nymphing on his own. He was made up.

That's why it never crossed my mind you might be kidding.

Must say though that I've never noticed that pink does that well on any other water.

Cheers,
A.

[Ed_D]

Alan,

Very nice fly. Would a dearth of your strain of grayling be a HypoThalamus, and an excess a HyperThalamus?

Regards,
Scott

Scott,
You'll be sent to the punitentiary for that.

Ed