We all know that the sedge is a wide spread insect around our rivers that represents around 60-70% of salmon fish’s food. The trout is their greatest fan and July, August and September are the months when these can be found almost everywhere and in a large quantity.

The nymphs are what the fish are looking for most of the time, while the pupa are searched only in the period when they start emerging. In the evening there appear swarms that fly above the water and lay eggs.

I won’t give anymore details as I will debate the biology of these insects in another article. Now, allow me to share with you two types of flies that I often use while fishing in the Apuseni Mountains and not only there.

The first one is recommended for rivers with a medium velocity and volume of water. Here are the steps that need to be followed:

Hook: daiichi barbless D21 #16 2xlong

Tail: a few barbs of cock de leon, colour flor de escoba

Body: a yellow-ginger barb of condor substitute

Hackle: palmer grizzly brown natural –Whiting

Wings: a few feathers (2-3) of CDC-kaki natural

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The second type is slightly different. It is suitable for fast and agitated rivers so the fly must be very floatable. The French have a pattern for these sedges- bivisible, but I will speak about that one in another article.

I noticed that on the rivers located at a high altitude the most spread sedges are green on the front side and have olive legs and wings. In the warmer areas there the insects have yellow-goldish or reddish-brown front side.

Hook: daiichi barbless D21 #16 2xlong

Tail: a few barbs of cock de leon-colour corzuro oscuro

Body: body thread Devaux with intense light green wax ( or any other thread with the same hue)

Hackle: palmer oliv -Whiting

Wings: a few feathers(2-3) made of olive CDC

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