In Tasmania the brown trout often, particularly at dusk and pre-dawn feed in a manner known as 'tailing'. Sometimes this occurrs on dull days as well, particularly in the more remote lakes.
While trout may feed in flooded margins on the mainland it would not normally include the very distinctive habit of elevating the tail as they move.
It is quite exciting to see a large tail fully exposed in the shallower water, quite often with very little surface disturbance or perhaps waving very slowly.
As I mostly fish a dry fly, the link below will tell you of the developement of a fly designed to catch these tailers but which went on to be used far more widely. It may work for you.
Waz.
www.kossiedun.com.au/Warr ... Warryn.htm

reminds me of the Klinkhammer pattern.

Thanks for the hooper picture--I'll have to try the raffia legs and see how they hold up.

Paradun, the Black Warryn is one very nice fly. Good job.

Hi Warren,
Well speaking about your wonderful flying termite, its almost an exact match to our hatch up here, unlike your naturals ours keep their wings till they mate and nest. But just about everything else is like two peas in a pod. The trout go into feeding frenzies when there is a hatch near a river or creek edge and the constant winds blow swarms into the water. I used your termite before Tday week when we had a fresh hatch just up river in a small stream that feeds the river, at the mouth, a large down tree was nearby and the hatch site. With wind dozens would hit the water and the trout would be litterly jumping out of the water for them. For two or three days there I must have caught dozens each time the breeze scattered the real thing on top of the slow moving water. Its a time when catch and release can be alot of fun. After Tday week I went back (yesterday) the hatch was over but I stayed all day and in about 8 hours must have caught between 20-40 trout, many over and over I suspect on that little flying termite. Of the group of flys you sent the one with the longer dark wing was the most outstanding of the bunch, the others with brown to black wings worked well and the one with white wings was the least popular with our trout.
I fished the whole day today, again starting at the little creek mouth but sense the termite hatch was done I switched to your Black Warryn. Pretty good fishing for about an hour till the few trout that were hanging around from the day before were caught a few times each and finally stopped taking the fly. I worked up river then, its was a windy cold day today, a storm is suppose to be hitting us either tonight or tomorrow, so it was in the low 40s all day and gusty. I worked in under some narrow areas of the river that had a canopy of tree limbs above, using the little heddon 8381 with a DT5F i was side and roll casting to avoid the low roof and casts were 25 feet or so, just about ever pool or tree root backwater had a trout eager to take that fly, so it was as constant on the river as the termite was in the creek mouth.
Both flys are real performers if you know where the trout are.
I looked at your grasshopper. I use alot of hopper flys here, they are very popular sping to summer with our trout. I would suggest a bright green leg, or perhaps almost floresent green, that bright, it would more match our naturals here. We also have some prying manthis here of the same color that are quite popular when they hit the water.
Richard

Hi Warryn,
The first flying termite is the one that has the long wings, I have no idea why the trout loved it so, the wings are way longer than the real termites


This one was outstanding the trout were jumping out of the water for it.



This one almost exactly matched the hatch, trout really went for it too



This is the one with the pail wings the trout weren't taking it.

Richard

Yep thats the exact two, both are outstanding matches the one has longer wings than our native flying termites, but the trout really went wild for that one. The one with the shorter wings was great too. Your right, it was a very slow water, and I was casting into the only little pools.
Richard