I spent Friday night on the river. It was very humid and overcast until about 2.30am when the mist came down and forced me to pack up!
I fished the flats first as soon as the light had faded. A good fish moved in the tail which was promising! I then continued down to the bush, above and below with no offers. Andy's Pool was equally lifeless! I battled my way through the undergrowth from my pool to the bottom pool and fished that down to the tail.
At about 1.00am I decided to fish the flats once again concentrating in and around the 'hot spot'. At the hot spot I had a good take and felt the weight of a good fish but alas it only stayed on for a few seconds! At this point I had changed my fly to a Rodder's Special, a fly I haven't fished for quite a long time! I carried on down again through the tail and down to the bush and below. Whilst fishing below the bush a good fish moved above me in between the bush and the tail of the flats. Then the mist came down quite quickly and forced me to pack up! Somehow I feel that if the mist hadn't come I might have had a fish? I wonder?
All in all not a complete right off. There seems to be the odd fish about here and there. The amount of fishing activity seems very very low this season. I haven't seen any other anglers this season other than Dan and Steff and for the past few outings I've seen no-one! One thing that has struck me this season is the amount of small fry about! There are thousands everywhere in the shallows! I wonder why they are not turning in to adult sea trout or brown trout? A mystery!
After quite a few nights fishing this season my tally still stands at 2! Back down in 3 weeks God willing!
hi i also fished the river last week Wednesday and Thursday night both nights was hot and clear. had a brownie of 2lbs second cast. some encouraging news is that i saw more seatrout jump in two nights than i have seen in 5 or 6 years. most of them before 9.45pm as i was waiting to start and i heard some big fish jump in crewil pool from nicks spot. i did see 3 other anglers over to two nights all fishing crewil pool i am hoping to be back down on the 21st august for 3 more nights
ReplyDeletehi Andrew we should have gone this week. the river came up about 1ft hope it will bring some fresh fish up
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