Spot The Fish

Spent an afternoon on the upper river.

Conditions may of been hard but the

hope of a fish or two was high.

I set up with two little nymphs suspended

under a dry. The way I have been intending

to fish for a while is to go small. So the little 1.5

tungsten headed PTN's tied on a SLD 18's

was I hoped going to do the trick. The dry

was a sort of Klink with a large foam post,

I had also tied a small loop of mono on to the

fly and it fished a treat. Well what I mean is

it floated and cast well!! the fish paid little

notice.

I was busy with this trio while Rob was

doing the same but with just a duo.

We fished the first run hard and it

looked good water but not a touch.
After wading across and almost not

making it I decided to fish a little Red

Tag tungsten head nymph, again tied

on a Partridge SLD only slightly bigger

on a 16's. This was teamed up with the

same fly with a yellow tag my little plays

on very traditional Grayling flies. It did

the trick half way down the pool the line

tightened into a fish and we were both glad

to see a sign of life.
The fishing was hard so we moved down stream

to a area we have had success before. I fished

a team of nymphs Czech style without a touch

in several pools with very good water.

What I did see was two Goosander and a few

Comorants. This seems to be very common

and the Grayling, Dace and other fish also

are just not in the same numbers. It's very

sad.