Black foam beetle

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I have just been given a couple of small black foam beetle flies from somebody who got them from a friend a few years ago but never used them. They are new to me after almost 60 years fly fishing. Just wondering if anybody has used them for brown trout on a small river and if so how and when. I'm curious to give them a go.

Bromium

Used them once when I lost my last sedge (caddis) pattern as the light was fading and the trout hammered the beetle when slightly skated but it had a pretty similar profile to the sedge in the fading light I would imagine. Originally I got them to suspend bigger nymphs from for duo rigs. I might give them a shot on their own some time soon.

mikeweed

Never tried them on a river but on Ardaire Springs in Mooncoin they are great, either the trout will come up slow and just swallow or the hit like a train. Let them drift on the ripple with shot pulls, most times when you give them a little short pull that they get hammered. Excellent sport.