Trout and Terrestrials

120 Pages·1996·7.873 MB·English

by  Lou Stevens

TROUT AND
TERRESTRIALS

TROUT AND
TERRESTRIALS
Lou Stevens
Swum
I have fond memories of many worthwhile adversaries who have obliged by
taking my terrestrial offerings.
Without those gallant trout this book would never have been written.
Copyright © 1993 by Lou Stevens
First published in the UK in 1993
by Swan Hill Press an imprint of Airlife Publishing Ltd
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1 85310 388 8
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
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Printed by Livesey Ltd, Shrewsbury
Swan Hill Press
an imprint of Airlife Publishing Ltd.
101 Longden Road, Shrewsbury SY3 9EB.
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank my good friend, fellow flyfisher and entomologist, Edward J.
Blane PhD, for his patient work identifying a number of my more obscure
specimen insects.
Thanks are also due to my brother, Gerry Stevens, who willingly offered his
studio facilities to photograph my many fly patterns.
Last but not least, I must mention Ed Bassin, Roy Stoddard and Martin Kelner
QC, good friends and fishing companions, who were always ready to accept my
patterns and report their results.

Contents
Foreword ii
1 The Food of Trout 13
2 Beetles 15
3 Tying the Beetles 20
4 The Hopper Family 27
5 Tying the Hoppers 30
6 The Wasp Family 36
7 Tying the Wasp Family 39
8 Ants 43
9 Tying the Ant 47
10 Moths 51
11 Tying the Moths 55
12 Crane Flies 61
13 Tying the ‘Daddy Longlegs’ 64
14 The Minutiae 70
15 Tying the Minutiae 74
16 Caterpillars 77
17 Tying the Caterpillars 80
18 Minor Terrestrials 86
19 Tying Minor Terrestrials 90
Appendix A Evolving Terrestrial Patterns 96
Appendix B Terrestrial Fishing Techniques 99
Appendix C The Final Word - Conservation 106