I was out on foot today but seen as I'm over the pond so to speak thought you might enjoy it anyway
As much as I love catching trout from the main rivers on streamers I also love the intimacy of the tiny tributaries and tributaries of tributaries, there often tiny, neglected and have some surprises, all you have to do is put in the time to search them which with a small lightweight fly rod is often good fun.
This morning was one such morning that I decided to get the 6'9" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] out the loft for the first time this season. I made my way onto a 200yd stretch that I've not fished and sat watching, 09:15 and several fish rising to midges, brilliant straight on with a dry fly and away we go. The first ones were below me under a bridge that required a downstream dry approach but the willow behind me made it awkward and after several passes over without any offers I set off upstream.
The only problem with this beck is the pools are slow, flat and long for such a narrow stream, this in turns mean the trout are easily spooked and often just move around rising here and there as apposed to holding station and rising clockwork in the same lie
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The first offer to a small emerger pattern was bumped off and put the rest of the fish down in an instant. A change if tactic to cover the top 10yds of the pool where there was increased flow, a small fish fell to a lightly weighted caseless caddis pattern
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A couple more were bumped off then rigjt in the fast skinny water where I wasn't expecting anything I connected with a large fish that bent my little noodle through the cork I could see it charging around hoping that the hook wouldn't pull and was relieved when it hit the net
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Not massive by trout standards but a good wild fish for anywhere and a massive fish for a tiny stream you can jump over.
I continued on upstream picking fish up on duo tactics until I reached a pool where there's often a half decent olive hatch, I wasn't disappointed when I turned the corner to find trout hitting olives with gusto and chanced it with a sz18 stripped quill olive emerger, after missing a couple of solid takes I swapped over to a dun (jt olive) and had a few pretty fish before heading home to bed
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Small stream trout, I'd urge everyone to try it at least once it's a blast
As much as I love catching trout from the main rivers on streamers I also love the intimacy of the tiny tributaries and tributaries of tributaries, there often tiny, neglected and have some surprises, all you have to do is put in the time to search them which with a small lightweight fly rod is often good fun.
This morning was one such morning that I decided to get the 6'9" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] out the loft for the first time this season. I made my way onto a 200yd stretch that I've not fished and sat watching, 09:15 and several fish rising to midges, brilliant straight on with a dry fly and away we go. The first ones were below me under a bridge that required a downstream dry approach but the willow behind me made it awkward and after several passes over without any offers I set off upstream.
The only problem with this beck is the pools are slow, flat and long for such a narrow stream, this in turns mean the trout are easily spooked and often just move around rising here and there as apposed to holding station and rising clockwork in the same lie
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The first offer to a small emerger pattern was bumped off and put the rest of the fish down in an instant. A change if tactic to cover the top 10yds of the pool where there was increased flow, a small fish fell to a lightly weighted caseless caddis pattern
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A couple more were bumped off then rigjt in the fast skinny water where I wasn't expecting anything I connected with a large fish that bent my little noodle through the cork I could see it charging around hoping that the hook wouldn't pull and was relieved when it hit the net
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Not massive by trout standards but a good wild fish for anywhere and a massive fish for a tiny stream you can jump over.
I continued on upstream picking fish up on duo tactics until I reached a pool where there's often a half decent olive hatch, I wasn't disappointed when I turned the corner to find trout hitting olives with gusto and chanced it with a sz18 stripped quill olive emerger, after missing a couple of solid takes I swapped over to a dun (jt olive) and had a few pretty fish before heading home to bed
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Small stream trout, I'd urge everyone to try it at least once it's a blast