Before we get stuck into the May's Top 10 this month, we are excited to announce a new feature called 'Trends', showing the seasonality of our popular patterns, when to fish them, and what are the most popular hooks being used at that time of year. The trend data is available on most pattern on Fish4Flies and to demonstrate, we have included the trends of all patterns in this month's top 10 chart.
These trending flies show a great impression of what is happening on the water at the moment, and directly shows what patterns other fisherman are using to catch those fish!
The Pearly Daddy and Apache White managed to beat any one individual Mayfly pattern this month, although that's not to say that the second half of this month wasn't busy; it more than made up from the 'closed waters' period at the start of the month, yet because of the situation and noise in data the Mayfly patterns did not saturate the chart like in previous years - despite the abundance of hatches.
This chart does however contain lots of strong patterns which can be fished in June and throughout the summer. And that is probably what people are thinking, by choosing a few Mayfly patterns and stocking up with strong patterns seeing as June is right around the corner!
We hope that this has been of interest to you. Please remember to share with anyone of interest, and let us know how you have been getting on with the return to the sport if you are in a lucky region which now allows it!
Wishing you all the best, and remember stay safe.