Neil Maidment
Moderator
Slipped out for an afternoons trouting today, to a fishery thats in a very ancient woodland valley and therefore sheltered from todays gale force winds.
Had a few during the afternoon on buzzers fished deep and slow but from about 5pm, there was an ever increasing mayfly hatch. The trout went mad! My problem was that I only had a total of six dry flys in three boxes! Fortunately all were mayfly, three standard and three bright green! No floatant and a sinking leader didn't help either. But for around two hours Ihad a whale of a time hitting and missing a lot of beautiful slow gentle rises.
I literally lost count of the fish I landed let alone those I missed. The six flys very quickly got mullered and stripped to bits but I made each one last as long as possible, taking quite a few fish just under the surface film.
Spectacular sport and great fun.
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Had a few during the afternoon on buzzers fished deep and slow but from about 5pm, there was an ever increasing mayfly hatch. The trout went mad! My problem was that I only had a total of six dry flys in three boxes! Fortunately all were mayfly, three standard and three bright green! No floatant and a sinking leader didn't help either. But for around two hours Ihad a whale of a time hitting and missing a lot of beautiful slow gentle rises.
I literally lost count of the fish I landed let alone those I missed. The six flys very quickly got mullered and stripped to bits but I made each one last as long as possible, taking quite a few fish just under the surface film.
Spectacular sport and great fun.
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