Dry fly
Black Sedge
Small dark evening sedge
Trout · GraylingSurface
A small slate-black adult sedge of high-summer evenings; skate or dead-drift in the surface film as fish slash at egg-laying silverhorns.
Fish this when
On high-summer evenings when small dark silverhorns are egg-laying over the water and fish are slashing at them in the surface film.
Why it works
Its dark, low-riding profile against a bright evening sky matches the natural's dip-and-flutter egg-laying dance closely enough to draw the same aggressive slashing take.
Naturals it imitates
small dark adult sedge
Typical zone & fishable range
usually
Surface
Film
Subsurface
Deep
Setup sensitivity: medium
Quick facts
Tying difficulty
Beginner-friendly