Brown Drakes

This brown drake was hanging out on my front window today. Brown drakes can offer some explosive fly fishing around dusk when they usually hatch. Today is a dull overcast day and on these types of days, brown drakes can hatch even mid day. Trout love these big meals! Often browns in our Central Alberta streams will throw caution to the wind to greedily gulp down these delicacies. The Red Deer River can have some excellent hatches of brown drakes. Often you can see the spinners moving up and down along the bike trails here in Red Deer. Too bad the Red Deer River is running high and close to no visibility. I bet there are some excellent hatches happening along some of our mud bottomed Central Alberta streams.