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The real March Brown is a fairly scarce European fly (it occurs only on very rough, rocky rivers), though it has many near relations in North America and Europe. However the duns of most of these rarely occur on the water, for their nymphs crawl ashore for the dun emergence. So they usually do not figure highly in the trout diet. Nevertheless, the artificial, soft-hackled wet March Brown is an excellent fish catcher for, as G. E. M. Skues put it, the March Brown, ‘is an excellent fly, and as generally tied, quite a poor imitation of the natural fly and quite a passable one of almost anything else’. It works in lakes (the real fly is a river insect) and rivers, for a wide range of fish.

MARCH BROWN

Hook: Wet fly, size 10–14.

Thread: Orange.

Tails: 2–3 fibres speckled partridge tail.

Body: Dubbed mix hare’s ear and yellow mohair.

Hackle: Brown speckled partridge.

Wing: Bunch of fibres from speckled partridge tail or hen pheasant tail (optional).

SILVER MARCH BROWN

As above, but body flat silver tinsel.

This tying is a very good fly for sea trout, salmon, when the rivers are low in summer, and large lake trout. It could be taken for a small fish (e.g. fry or minnow).