13 April 2014

the wind, the rain and the trout

After a disappointing day on a river further afield on Saturday I was keen to get out again this afternoon to try and redeem myself, this time fishing a local burn. Like yesterday the downstream wind was proving to be a total nuisance, I was having great difficulty getting my cast to land where I intended it too, getting caught up on overhanging branches etc in the process, to make matters worse the rain decided to team up with the wind,  momentarily i thought i might have been better off staying in the house listening to the football instead!


despite this the burn had decent clarity and was running at a good height,  as i made my way upstream i started to pick up a few trout in between the bad casts, all falling to the good old brown wire nymph with one or two having a go at the dirty polly on the surface.

blue ting on the gill cover
  this pounder put up a great scrap on the six footer, careering about the pool,  jumping several times before i got him in the net.


next pool up produced another nice trout


not that i knew much about him, he was on when i lifted off at the end of a cast


he was the last fish of the afternoon before i went home, contented having found a few trout. 

11 comments:

  1. Way to go fellow.
    Great fish.

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  2. well done bri , far better than listening to football!

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    1. Match that's true Col, I listened to a wee bit of the Liverpool match on the way there.

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  3. Very well done! Some beautiful browns in bad weather always brings a sense of accomplishment

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    1. Thanks Mark, typically the weathers great today, always seems to be bad at the weekends just now!

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  4. Well done mate nice day & nice fish

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    1. Nice trout maybe George, weather wise it's not been great since you've been on holiday, looking better this week though.

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    2. I'm back now and the weather is superb in Yorkshire...for a change...and hopefully can get amongst the trout again very soon. Nice write up.

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  5. nice looking fish there !! well done

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  6. Cheers guys, hope there's a few more about at the weekend.

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