[Ivor Duffus]

A guess we will all be dredging with nymphs soon  .


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[Duncan McRae]

Very worrying.
The evening rises are so short these days.Back in the late 70s early 80s you would regularly get a good couple of hours on the dry fly  throughout the summer months on the Don.
These days you  are lucky to get a half hour rise with many evenings when there are no trout surface feeding.

Duncan

[Rob Brownfield]

Its interesting as we have huge insect swarms where we are. The car is forever covered in the buggers and if we open the door at night, we get a hall way of insects. I left the bathroom window open Friday night and Saturday the bathroom was covered in insects.

I would say this year I have never seen so many flying beasties....and we get all sorts.

[Bob Mitchell]

I would say that this season I have seen even less bug life than last season.
Saw a single yellow sally this summer and it reminded me how in a late afternoon there would be hundreds dancing up and down. Fishing the evening rise [that's a joke] one counts the number of rises one sees.
Dryflys hardly ever used.
Sad.
Bob.

[Derek Roxborough]

I worked for SNH for a while, there was a moth trap on the reserve  on the go 24/7/365,some of the moths were scarce types , but it didn't stop the trap,not only was it catching moths but a lot of other night fliers as well, I managed to Identify 4 different sedges,and at least one moth on the reserve was on the European red list, luckily it was a day flier, I know this was only one trap in one place, but the overall impact at the reserve must have been  quite heavy, we had rare Dragonflies there as well , and as insect eaters this must have impacted on them, I have watched Dragonflies catching and earing Magpie moths, and seeing them catching upwings as well, so every thing has a knock on effect, no such thing as a free lunch, Derek Roxborough