the season's moving on

 September has arrived and with it she brings cooler mornings and shorter nights, the feeling that summer has gone for another year and the realisation that their is only one month to go until the end of the trout season. The highland stream we fished yesterday had that back end feel about it, although it was a nice enough day the blustery winds had battered the trees and the side streams were filling with leaves, another month or so and the  river will be full of them.

Unfortunately the overnight rain had made no impact on the rivers height, still down to its bones, Some usually good pools lacked the pace needed to bring them to life but some pools are always fast and deep enough to hold trout  and we picked up trout from these places.

 there was hardly a riser to be seen all day, a few had a go for my dry but I missed them all! the nymph took all our trout.

were always hoping for that better than average trout that this stream produces and today Col got his reward with a fine golden trout from a favourite pool of his.

 the river was far from its best today, it could really have been doing with some extra water in it but it was a fine day to be out anyway, might be next season now before the next visit I'm looking forward to it already.