So its been patchy few weeks, between weather, water and work.
But I have managed a few sessions here and there, mostly on an evening and we have a had a few nice ones of those.
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I've a new toy in play too as my Tom Morgan 3wt was finally ready to go and use, Many thanks to Luke Bannister for building it for me, I enjoy using things folk have made for me.
It proved the ideal companion for the slightly smaller flies and calmer conditions of a summer evening.
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I found a few like this in the many pockets on several beats of the upper river
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Some with a nice greenish hue too, which is unusual for the Don
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Plenty flies about, with fairly steady BWO and SDO hatches and some reasonable Spinner falls later on, little black things about to.
There are still some bigger spinners about, which I think might be large green dun , spinners as its too late of the Uprights and brook duns to be about and the spinners of all 3 are pretty similar
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Most of the spinners I've found on the water in recent weeks are more dirty yellow than rusty red, so I tweaked the Double wing dun from the previous post to be a bit closer to the natural spinners, I mixed the rusty orange with the lt olive and used pepperbox around the wings
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Works a treat as a search pattern as well cast at rising fish, it has been my top fly for most evenings and has picked up some cracking fish, which I was surprised for August. Missed quite a few too. But it has been a really interesting few weeks for sticking with the dry and I haven't had to go below a 14 to pick them up, which is handy in failing light and with aging eyes.
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This fine lady is an old friend , this is the 3rd time i've knowingly caught her in the last couple of years and she gets a little bigger and little prettier each time.