Wet fly

Ke-He

Scottish loch wet

TroutSubsurface

Peacock herl body, red tail, soft hackle — the Ke-He is a Scottish loch standard that looks modest in the box and catches fish steadily all season. The kind of fly that ends up on every local's cast.

Fish this when

Drifting Scottish lochs through spring and summer. On a team of wets as the middle dropper or point fly when buzzers and general invertebrates are active.

Why it works

Peacock herl is one of the most reliably effective fly-tying materials — it has a natural iridescence that seems to trigger feeding trout without any obvious reason why.

Naturals it imitates