Trutta Fruity

This was my first (and beautifully spotted) wild brown trout of the new river fly fishing season today on the Wharfe ‘Weir Pool’ of Addingham Angling Association water in my beloved Yorkshire Dales.

It was caught on a homemade large dry fly creation of mine called a ‘Dalesbred Unkempt’ and was fished on a long leader point - fished in tandem with two tiny so-called ‘North Country Spiders’ (fly patterns with a pedigree and provenance hundreds of years old from our northern ‘freestone’ rivers).

A second trout quickly followed, this time on a size #16 spider pattern called a ‘Snipe & Purple’. All fished barbless and released to fight another day.