ANGLING

The trout are going absolutely bananas right now, hammering into the shoals of coarse fish in the margins. So if you know a fishery with a healthy head of perch, then this Perch Fry will do the business.

It is tied up on a size 6-12 longshank hook using medium olive Micro 8/0 thread, there is a tail of golden pheasant topping. The body is white flat floss, ribbed with fine oval silver.

There is a beard hackle of scarlet cock fibres and the wing is two medium olive cock hackles and two grizzle cock hackles.

The Montana isn’t a fashionable pattern these days, but at this time of the season the colour combination of black and yellow can be absolutely devastating.

This variation called the Yellow Montana is well worth a swim. The hook is a size 10 Partridge H1A and the tying thread is black.

The tail is a pinch of black marabou and the body is fine black chenille, ribbed with silver wire.

The thorax is fluorescent yellow ostrich herl, with a wing case of black pheasant tail fibres and it is finished with a beard hackle of soft dyed yellow hen.