Fulling Mill Rusty Spent Spinner

The last meal of the evening, and the one they rarely refuse

Every mayfly ends the same way. After the mating flight the spinners fall to the water with wings flat in the film, and trout that ignored the duns all afternoon settle into a steady, confident rhythm picking them off. Spent mayflies of most species fade to the same rusty brown, which is why one Rusty Spent Spinner covers so many different hatches. Fish it dead drift on flat water, glides and eddies through the last hour of light, and watch for the quiet sipping rise rather than the splash.