Continuing on from last weeks first installment, John Bailey investigates further in preparation for a group trip to Spain.

For me, the excitement of having a group out in Spain is that the learning process can be accelerated quickly, especially if I’m with perceptive fly fishers. I’ve already suggested that dry fly is not too difficult a proposition providing you present a fly with little drag and providing the fish are really surface feeding. Sometimes it’s easy to think they’ll take a dry fly but unless you actually see their nebs breaking surface it’s probably not worth the effort. I don’t know what they’re taking for real – I sometimes suspect its detritus from the factories. However, it’s the nymph fishing that really stretches me…