Lake District

We fish here in drifting boats from mid-March until mid-June. The duckfly hatches, though temperamental and often short-lived, can be spectacular, bringing shoals of wild brown trout to feeding frenzy on these distinctive grey-black buzzer pupae. 
Early in the year, during calm weather, we fish with teams of nymphs, angled to the drifting boat and retrieved slowly.  In windy conditions we revert to the traditional loch-style approach with teams of small spiders and wet flies, sometimes with a small, dark dry fly on the top dropper to hang in the waves..
In May the Lake Olives make an appearance, followed by the Green Drake Mayfly (ephemera danica).  Surface sport with imitations of the nymphs or dry duns of these species can be thrilling.  The Ullswater brown trout can often be demanding, but always rewarding.  The lake rests beneath spectacular Helvelyn, at the western extreme of the Eden system at the top of the River Eamont; it's fish are utterly wild, typical of the trout of the entire Eden system. There is also a chance of the capture of a schelly, a rare salmonid whitefish, which is found in very few lakes other than Ullswater