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.

Gone cukoo?

Last night it rained, light rain was the forecast, but it was heavy enough to colour up the rivers. So no fishing today.....Aye right! On the walkwith the dog which is alongside my local river and also the canal , i pass first a small burn. Passing it on the way down it was coloured but low, i also pass it further upstream after coming off the canal towpath and by the time i'd got round it was running clear.

So i had a fishable option,  i was more interested in seeing what it was like in it's lowest reaches as i'd never been , in all honesty it's not a burn that anyone would really consider fishing , it's on the burn/ditch border, very small very overgrown and if anyone caught me in the act of fishing it they would think i'd lost it.

Well the place i tackled up was probably quite fitting then!

 

    I then walked through the woods to where it empties into  the main river .

The Main river was still the colour of milky coffee maybe   clear for tommorow. Any way , i tackled up with a dry at first, and not expecting anything i hooked my first trout, which promptly shook it's self off, a few runs up in a pocket, i decided to add a nymph NZ style, and a wee trout came kicking in on the nymph. In some runs the nymph was useful on others i just fished a dry , and here and there i got fish.

the pools were very mixed in character some were narrow pots, ideal for the nymph.

some runs.

And the odd short pool.

Of these types of water  the runs seemed most productive. fairly enjoyable wee session catapult casting my way up a ditch. Ive a couple of other tiny tributaries to explore , they may be fishless but "ye don't know till you go".

yellae fellae

What a hatch!

First day of my fortnights holiday, where will i go? It was windy so a good bet was my local, a westerly meant downstream rather than up. Dog walk out the way i got down for 12pm , flies were trickiing off, a couple of fish rising at the tail of a pool the one nearest looked the better one, (he was'nt really) the one further over took a biot klink first time , the nearer   one was a bit fussy, but eventually i got him on a cdc- flexi emerger. Further up i came across two trout rising side by side the near one looked small the further one was clearly a better fish ,by now loads of flies were coming down, infact i don't think ive seen a better hatch of large dark olives on this river. i chucked my fly box at them both , eventually i put on a para-dun rose the good fish, but  didnt connect. 

Moving on up plenty risers in the tails and main belly of the pool to throw a fly at they were  a lot less fussy   falling to the biot klink hammer , It was a fairly hectic 2 hours then by 2pm the hatch died , and barely a rise form was to be seen, though i did manage a few fishing blind, maybe head down again tommorow a few scores to settle.