Fly fishing at night

toof

Is fly fishing in rivers for trout better in the night than it is during the day?

Bizzum

toof wrote: »

Is fly fishing in rivers for trout better in the night than it is during the day?

It's not really a question of it being better or worse. Different times of the year, different fly hatches, different trout feeding patterns will all have influence.
A summers evening can give great fishing on spent olives and then sedges on through dusk into the dark.

Zzippy

Fishing at night can be brilliant for sea trout, on many rivers its the best time to fish for them. Brownies will also feed well into dark if there is a hatch on, which tends to happen on warm summer nights. Sedges in particular start to hatch in the late evening and will provide sport well into the dark.

danbrosnan

agree with zip i always found sea trout is better at night...

On the lakes, bubble and fly and i used always use the white moth.. deadly...

SeaFields

Theres an old fishing analogy that one should not start to fish for sea trout until the bats come out. Personally I'd leave it later still.

I've often fished for seatrout until the sun started to come up and have taken trout right up until this.

For brownies I would say similar. While there are rivers where the trout will die down after the hatch, on many others the bigger trout will start to come on after dark. If the water is warm, brown trout will take throughout the night.

pullandbang

Dragging a big sedge across the water at night can attract big trout.

deceger

i would agree with pullandbang ,i have caught some great trout fishing sedges at nite.i find the flat clam water better than the streamy water.i think the big trout are big cos they only feed at dusk/dark

con___manx1

larger size fly's are better for sea trout at night.