Torrentis Products
The sport of fly-fishing and the food
items fish are eating are obviously intimately related. All the kit that
Torrentis offers has just one goal. The goal is to help anglers better
understand what the fish they are trying to catch are actually feeding on. Most
anglers have frustrating stories of occasions when fish are rising all around
them yet ignoring all their favourite patterns leaving them beaten and bemused.
All this can now change; you do not even have to be skilled in bug
identification because simply by catching and looking carefully at the food
that is available to the fish you can choose, with confidence, the artificial
fly best suited to match what you see. You’ll be amazed at what you find and a
whole new world will be revealed.
Bug Skreen, intended for the angler trying to find out what is available for the
fish to feed on either at the water surface or within the water column of both
rivers and stillwaters. In rivers hold across the flow in the area just
downstream of fish activity allowing the samples to wash onto the mesh. It can
also be used to sample which bugs are living on the riverbed or in weed. To do
this just hold across the flow in the shallows and gently disturb a small area
of riverbed or weed just upstream of the Bug Skreen, this will release bugs
into the flow where they are carried to the mesh and trapped. On stillwaters
use the Bug Skreen to sweep the downwind margins where any potential food items
will collect. When not in use the Bug Skreen simply rolls up to fit in the a
pocket of your fly-fishing vest or bag.
Each net uses a soft yet tough 1mm mesh that is insect-friendly, this ensures all captured bugs can be
released without harm after visual examination.
Approximate
size when open is 300mm x 200mm
Size & Colour Reference Cards, two tough, waterproof laminated cards
that allow you to accurately check the size and colour shades of any insect you
catch. Such important information can be used for reference at the fly-tying
bench or just general interest that all helps to a better understanding of the
bugs & beasties that make up the food chain of the fish we are trying to
catch. Most importantly, if you use the cards in conjunction with a Bug Observation Box it is much easier
to examine your captive which can then be released without harm and you can get
on with some fishing!
Approximate size of each card is 100mm x
70mm
Bug Observation Box, a very useful, light weight clear
acrylic observation box. This is perfect for holding any small bug of interest
while you examine it. You can then either match it with an artificial from your
fly box or make notes on its size and colour or even check its identity with
the aid of one of the Field Studies
Council Guides (see below). Best
of all, the creature can then be released
without harm and the box put back in your vest pocket until it is needed again.
Approximate
size is 55mm x 35mm x 20mm
Field Studies Council (FSC) Guides, When it comes to basic identification by
the water side there is simply no better system than to use FSC guides. I stock
six of the most useful for the practical fly-fisher but new ones are always
coming out, so watch this space! The two most useful guides I find are the Freshwater Name Trail and Bugs on Bushes. With these two Guides
you can narrow down to “type” just
about any bug or beastie that you find in and around the water that could be a
food source for the fish. Both these guides are easy to use folding charts that
are laminated (making them ideal for use by the waterside) and can easily be
carried all the time in your fly-vest or fishing bag. They are highly
recommended. If you want to go a little deeper into the wonderful world of
insects and identification then you can take the next step by looking at the
more specialised guides from the FSC. There is one for mayflies (all the
The Endosampler, this confirms what the fish are feeding on. It is not a traditional
stomach pump! It has the very minimum of suction and a small diameter soft
tube, that when used correctly, takes just a small sample of the fishes most
recently eaten food items (this is what you want to see). Each sampler comes
with clear instructions on how, and when, it should be used.
Approximate
size is 160mm long with a 15mm wide bulb
Sample Tubes, fly-fishermen who tie their own flies or who have a keen interest in
the entomology side of the sport occasionally like to take away examples of the
bugs they find. These can be studied in far greater detail at home and stored for
future reference as part of a collection. These tubes come in a packet of two;
they are very tough, leak resistant, and ideal for transporting samples from
the river or inside a fish. The specimens can be either kept dry (the adult
insects) in the tubes or in water (the larvae and nymphs) and should be okay
for a few hours. However, as soon as you get home the specimens need to be
dealt with before they start to rot! They will easily fit into a spare pocket
of your fly-vest.
Each Tube is about 120mm long and 18mm
wide (15ml capacity)
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