Wet fly

Silver Doctor

Classic wet-fly bridge

Sea trout · SalmonShallow

One of the great Victorian fully-dressed wet flies — silver body, blue-and-red wing — that crossed from the salmon tradition into a smaller sea-trout dressing. A confidence pattern on Irish sea-trout rivers and lakes, and carried across the Atlantic into the Canadian Maritime tradition too.

Fish this when

Summer and autumn on Irish sea-trout rivers and lakes, fished across-and-down on the swing at dusk or after dark. Works equally well sized down for grilse and sea-run brook trout on Atlantic Canadian rivers.

Why it works

Silver body and red-blue wing read as something alive to fish raised on diverse forage.

Naturals it imitates