My Shopping Basket

Brown Long Legged Gnat Fly

This fly is one of our library flies. If you want this fly, register your interest and be notified once this pattern arrives in stock.

Register your interest

If you are interested in this pattern please register your interest below. We have the most popular patterns tied up, so encourage your friends to register to increase priority.

Once this pattern becomes available for sale we will send you a non-intrusive notification via your browser or mobile.

Fill in your email address to also be notified via email once available.

Notification Email Address:

Please Note: The first time you make a request you may be asked to accept or block notifications from us. Please choose 'Accept', otherwise your request may not be processed.

Similar Flies in Stock

About the Brown Long Legged Gnat Trout Fly

The Brown Long Legged Gnat is particularly successful on still or sluggish water. Gnats thrive in that environment and although they may seem like a plague when they emerge, often in large hatches, on warm summer evenings they are a staple food for trout.

Expert Tip:

Roger Woolly, author of ' The Fly Fisher's Flies', (1938) honed his skills on the streams of Derbyshire.

He was an expert on both trout and grayling flies and throughout his 60+ years of tying flies he never used a vice.

Creator of this trout fly: Roger Woolly

Tier of this trout fly: Mandy Shelvey

Country of origin for this trout fly: England

This trout fly is designed to be fished on Rivers & Streams, Still Water

Pattern Dressings

  • Hook : 14-18.
  • Thread : Brown tying silk.
  • Body : Brown tying silk.
  • Thorax : Knob of brown wool or fur.
  • Wing : Grizzle hackle points, stiff.
  • Hackle : Red grizzle cock hackle.

The hackle must be long and wound sparingly, two or three turns. Partridge L3B Captain Hamilton Dry Fly Up Eye.

Comments from other fly fishermen

Currently there are no comments about the Brown Long Legged Gnat fly pattern from other fly fishermen yet.

Sign-in to make a comment

To make a comment, please sign-in or register securely with us.