A Testing time for the Green burn

The main reason for this trip was to test out my 3 weight line on my two weight rod.  Didnt get there till 2pm but i think i timed it just right as a great hatch of fly came off , and in the flats you would get the occasional rise but 15 minutes or so in i reached a head and the volume of rising fish and hatch of flies was amazing, i picked , landed and a pricked them one by one, moving up the chaos resumed but within an hour it was largely all over with the odd riser . A good general stamp of fish and the line works much better on that wee rod than a 2 weight, just as i suspected.

Back on Familiar Territory

A novel rod holder

I met Brian at 12:15 pm on the bridge, we tackled up , a sunny day once again and the clarity of the water was good which is not surprising with the lack of rain, we  blethered mostly about the previous day and lessons learned, while we waited for the hatch, we then had a small burst of olives at 1pm, but a false alarm we sat a bit longer the decided to pick our way up fishing NZ style up the pool. all of a sudden at 1:45 the olives came down and  a few of these march browns .

 In the next wee pool  a fish rose at the top. Faced with a downstream wind i decided to take a couple of feet off my tapered leader and with that presentation was much improved . A few casts later i was in with a great take as the fish took the nymph almost as soon as it hit the water.

A fish of a round a pound.

 in the next pool we also had rising fish , and brian took the first on the dry.

 i then pricked 2 , then Brian landed another about a pound which gave a great account of it's self .

A few riseless pools later we did find a few more fish rising again i was on my long distance release which i'm becoming a expert at. after that Brian headed home as the water had gone dead while i tried a little further upstream , but nothing seemed to be in the mood. It was good while it lasted!

A Yellow warning for potential Snow has been issued  for Tuesday, it's hard to beleive after this spell of hot weather!

Gluttons for punishment!

We Fished a difficult river today, it was a first visit for me. The main target was simply to get one of there marbled marked trout, i  missed a lot of trout today, broke off on a big fellae being the highlight or lowlight  i suppose, mission accomplished though , a couple of trout landed and one sported the sought after markings.

"Marbled" trout

 Succesful flies or flies which got takes ,was a bit of a mix. cdc on straight and curved hook, biot klink, biot DHE, march brown emerger , and a hareear  klink while it was used for hanging a nymph.

Stalking

 A few challenging venues make for an interesting  prospect over the next month, hopefully the gods will be kind?

2 Hot Days of Contrast

It's been unseasonably hot over the last couple of days, the same is forecast over he next few days.

yesterday, i went down to my local to a section where it is walled in with cliffs much of the way. I think because of the shade it fished reasonably well, with a reasonable hatch too, infact i was still catching fish at 5pm mainly on nymphs though as the hatch was finished,  a busy days fishing.

Buzzards circling

today i went downstream again but to more open water although there is the odd shaded bit and these proved to be the best spots today. A few  risers but the rise was short lived and once it died it really was game over. The fishing has been difficult, the fish very spooky but whats been caught has been of a good stamp.

it's a start at least!

After work today i quickly  threw my gear together and ventured down to my local river in the hope of catching the tail end of the hatch, no such luck as there wasn't an olive to be seen, i did spot one fish rise however and i took him on a klink

 

no further risers on show as i walked upstream so i fished nz style through a couple of runs but i knew in my mind that i was wasting my time, to late on in the afternoon but my first trout of the season on the dry was welcome anyway.

Kiss of Death?

Today i planned to go to Brian's  local , as it can be great early season.  The wind was right ,a light easterly but unfortunately it was to be a bright cloudless day, normally it wouldn't bother me , but i knew it can be the kiss of death on this river.

I got down early, partly to pick up Brian's old camera , which he kindly lent to me after my mishap yesterday. I then went down to see if the hatch had materialised, form the word go olives and even a few brook duns were coming off, but not a riser to be seen , i waited, perhaps they've just started i thought? Then they were coming down in 3's and 4's i decided time to get fishing , looks like it's going to be the way of it today, no rise!

So i started off with a NZ style a gold head brown wire nymph and a size 12 brown biot klink  on the dropper. And i fluked a trout on the nymph from a shallow run.

Next pool i fished a bubble line and i rose a fish , and in surprise i hooked it , he'd taken the klink.
That kind of unlocked the technique for the day, as in the next pool again i took a few more on the klink doing away with the nymph, only to add it again in runs. Strangely despite ignoring the naturals they were quite keen to grab my klink.

I did eventually find rising trout in a bankside tail of a pool in the shade. both took the dry. It's not the usual way i would fish this at this time of year  usually I'd only fish for risers , but today i had no choice, either that or i might not have wetted a line at all.
I'm looking forward to getting back on this river with some cloud cover! Looks like ive got some fly tying to do a couple of klinks mashed .

Oh naw!

wood anenome's

Went down to my local , a beautiful day , virtually t shirt weather, ive never known a March like it. The river it's self was still carrying a fair bit colour though and was fairly high. So i was looking for shallow flats , as this seems to be the best bet in these  conditions. On my first pool on the way downstream i came across a riser, decided to have a shot for it before heading further downstream, was a fairly nice fish.

Heading further downstream i few other big flats  found and managed a few other trout all in the 3/4lb mark, and in spanking condition.

  I then took this photo,as you can see it was low down by the water , i never realised my camera case was trailing  in the drink and then i put my camera back in it's case ...doh!

Kind of soured the day though a few more trout were caught i really wanted to get back home and attempt to dry out the camera. Im not sure of it's fate at this moment fingers crossed! As they say though sh*t  happens.