Troutbeck Beatle Lure

Fishing Tips

A couple of hotel guests- Jack and June Dobson from Lusaka- had called at my cottage and asked for a couple of flies. My wife picked up a few of my "reject" Troutbeck Beatles and gave them to the couple. Now these people had never fished before, but had had casting lessons from me the previous evening. I had gone to fish the Gaerezi River, and when I returned to the hotel that evening the bar was buzzing with he news that the Dobsons had caught six large trout in the space of a couple of hours. They recorded the fly as "Harry's Reject". So there we had a superb dry fly, the Troutbeck Beatle, and a reject which was very effective when fished wet. This fly continued to take the six fish limit every evening. All large fish.

Creator of this trout fly: Harry Stewart

Tier of this trout fly Type: Harry Stewart

Country of origin for this trout fly: South Africa

This trout fly is designed on and fished on Dams & Reserviors, Still Water,

Pattern Dressings

Use 8-10 hackles on a No.6 hook. Start with black and red, wind the two hackles simultaneously keeping them as dense as possible, tie in more hackles winding on until you reach the eye. Whip finish & varnish. The rejects were size six and had additional green fluorescent chenille on the body to give bulk. The hackle was sparse. The reason I rejected them was that the green was peeping through and that wasn't what I wanted.

When should I fish with the Troutbeck Beatle?

This graph shows trends of when fly fisherman use the Troutbeck Beatle to fish with and what hooks are most popular throughout the fly fishing season.