What a slow start to the season it's been for me but not from the lack of trying, each weekend since March 15th ive been out only to draw a blank on each occasion. I was on holiday in gran canaria last week so no trout fishing then, but at least the little damsel fish and ornate wrasse were biting when I dabbled in a bit of LRF.
So on Sunday fully recovered from the long journey home I thought I would spend the afternoon on a local burn where surely it's residents would be beginning to wake up? thankfully It didn't take long to find out as on my second cast an eager little brownie took the big klinkhammer only to shed the hook seconds later, no mater one of his pals took the nymph further up the pool and i was able to bring my first trout of the season to hand.
Usually I only get the time to fish this burn so far up before having to walk back to the car but today I had the opertunity to venture further upstream since I had arranged for my wife to pick me up at a bridge upstream, great as I was keen to rediscover some of the pools I used to fish regularly after school many years ago.
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these daff's looked great in the spring sunshine
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Working my way upstream I found that some pools produced a trout or two, and others which I thought might were strangely quite, not fully wakened up yet but I think.
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Time was getting on before I had to be at the pick up point but time for one more pool, I remember this pool used to be a good place for a bigger than average trout then I was a lad so had a cast up the pool with a little more optimism perhaps than some of the previous pools, sure enough a trout swirled at the big klinkhammer but I missed him, he looked a better fish too so I thought a change to a little 14 klinkhammer might bring him up again, pleasingly it did and after a spirited little scrap I was able to end my day with a nice half punner, maybe even 10oz a good trout for this stream.
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sitting on the bridge waiting to be picked up i could see another trout rising in the corner pool, he'll have to wait until next time.
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Glad its picked up for you Brian, always nice to have a walk down memory lane, you've still got it by the looks of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Martin, a wee bit of back to basics fishing to get my enthusium back.
DeleteIt's funny how the fish simply appear when they're ready, as each week goes by I see more and more fish, who knows where they hide. Lovely wrasse Brian, they were my favourite species to keep when I had a tropical marine tank, I wold love to go on holiday just to catch little fish like that.
ReplyDeleteThe wrasse and damsel fish seem to be really common over there Ben, good fun for a wee while but I was hoping to catch some other species as well, only different thing I caught was a bass!
DeleteHi Brian, I'm off to Gran Canaria (Puerto Mogan) next week and the LRF gear is going with me. Been trawling the internet and reading on Scott's excellent blog about his trip to Lanzarote. Have you got any specific tips about GC? Cheers, Ian.
Deletewell done Brian nice to see you off the mark and amongst the fish again
ReplyDeleteThanks George, it's taken a while this year!
DeleteSome lovely pics there Brian, the burns are coming good now.
ReplyDeleteThanks Col, we're heading in the right direction.
DeleteNice seeing those lovely browns again, good work
ReplyDeleteCheers Mark
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