What trout eat – Snowy Mountains of NSW and Victoria

 

Food source JFMAMJJASOND Fly suggestions
Adult yabbies                         Woolly bugger
Floating yabby
Shrimp shell yabby
Small yabbies                         Mini woolly bugger
Woolly bugger
Worms (as vegetation is drowned)                         Woolly bugger
Mudeyes                         Chatto's mudeye
Woolly bugger
Nymphs                         Bead head nymphs
Bead head spiders
Nymphs, spiders, carixia and shrimp
Midge pupa, grubs and snails
Snails                         Chatto's snail
Black & peacock
Water snail
Stonefly (running water only)                         Nymphs
Stonefly
Tadpole (rising water only)                         Tadpole
Woolly worm
Small woolly buggers
Midge                         Quicklink
Beetles                         Red tag
Cocky-y-bonddu
Foam beetle
Geehi beetle
Tea tree beetle
Ants & termites                         Foam flying ant / termite
Foam flying ant / termite 2
Ant
Caddis / sedge                         Elk hair caddis
Trailing shuck caddis
Wedge sedge
Caenidae mayflies                         Caenis dun
Mayfly                         Lepto dun
Twilight beauty
Iron blue dun
Quill Gordon
Emergers                         Quicklink
Grass hoppers                         Quicklink
Caddis on wing                         Elk hair caddis
Trailing shuck caddis
Spinners                         Spinners