An angling friend who is a professional entomologist tells me that there are more than 300 beetle-like insects along our trout streams. This could easily explain why the Murray’s Flying Beetle is so successful for hundreds of my customers and myself from June until November.
Starting in June I use this in size 14 to go one on one with any trout I see rising if there is no hatch on. If I don’t see feeding trout I use this to cover all of the good looking feeding stations. The tails of the pools and along the undercut banks are usually very productive.
In July I drop down to my Beetle in size 16 and fish this on 6X leaders because much of the natural food available to the trout at this time is smaller and the trout take the size 16 well.
In August and September the trout usually become very wary and due to slow stream-flows they can investigate our flies very closely. By dropping down to the Flying Beetle in size 18 and fishing it on 7X leaders I can usually fool the trout.
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