About the Brown Long Legged Gnat Trout Fly

Every stillwater or sluggish water is the home of the gnat, and as 'buzzers / chironmidae' can often be the basic food of trout. So when the emerge on summers evenings, often in large hatches, a plague to the fisherman but interesting and known food to the trout. This pattern has it's own place in flyboxes

Expert Tip:

Roger Woolly, author of ' The Fly Fisher's Flies', (1938) honed his skills on the streams of Derbyshire. Expert on both trout and grayling flies, in all his 60+ years of tying flies he never used a vice.

Creator of this trout fly: Roger Woolly

Tier of this trout fly: Mandy Shelvey

Country of origin for this trout fly: England

This trout fly is designed to be fished on Rivers & Streams, Still Water fish

Dressings

• Hook : 14 - 18
• Thread : Brown tying silk
• Body : Brown tying silk
• Thorax : Knob of brown wool or fur
• Wing : Grizzle hackle points, stiff.
• Hackle : Red grizzle cock hackle

The hackle must be long and wound sparingly , 2 - 3 turns. Partridge L3B Captain Hamilton Dry Fly Up Eye