From Chris McCully:

These roach rise at dawn and dusk, even in these depths of the year. What they’re rising to, here in December, is a bit of a mystery, though it must, surely, be tiny midge pupae. In any sort of calm weather you see the fish topping, dawn and dusk, hard by the tram-stop…fish up to a massive 8 or 9 inches long.

This afternoon, as a change from working and writing (manic laughter in distance; pig flies past…) I spent an hour over these little scraps as the day steepened into night. Artificial was a size 16 or 18 Witch (an old grayling pattern) fished just sub-surface. I watched the leader-end for takes - an edge of nylon cutting through the reflections of city neon.

Read the rest and see the cool photo of the flies he used at his web log. Fly fishing for Coarse fish is one of my interests, too. See my group on Flickr and all my own Coarse Fish on the Fly shots.

@20:49:05 under Fishing