New Water

Today was going to be the day that

I got back onto a river or so I thought!

I had to put some wall paper up. Logan

is having is bedroom decorated so

Saturday after rugby training I gave

my Dad a ring.

"Give me a lift" I said.

Having fished for years my dad was

soon at the house helping. I thought

that;s it free day Sunday.

I looked at the phone "1 message"

kick off 11 am . My lad had a game.

With luck I would be back at dinner.

We had to wait Logan won a trophy.

Very few things are worth me missing

time by the river but the look on his

face meant this was one for sure!!

It was later and again my phone had a

message it was Pete.

"Fancy exploring @~~@+ upstream"

Literally saved by the bell.

We got the map out 10 to 15 minutes we were

looking at some nice water and quite close to home.

A few of out of season Trout means this water

will be visited with the fly come spring.
A couple of Chub made us wonder what surprises

the river may hold.
Not a bad day at all in the end.

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.