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john conway
Guest
Section of Fishery or river stretch:...Skipton Area
Date:...12/05/07
Time fished:...11:30 to 17:30 Hrs
Weather conditions:...Sunny, blustery breeze, clouding over at 16:00hrs turning to rain as I left.
Water conditions:...River high but droping fast, plenty of colour.
Air temperature:...15C
Water Temperature:...11.1C
Bait:...North Country Spiders @ 1st but winged wet flies for most of the session
Method:...Wet Fly, 1 dropper and point
Results:...
6 small trout: -
13:05 6" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
13:10 10" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
15:20 6" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
6" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
15:25 8" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
6" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
Brief description of the session & remarks:...This was both a fly-fishing trip and a reci trip for chub fishing later on in the summer. This was the first time I've fished the river Aire and the lower section of the stretch I fished looked very chubby.
All the trout came from the same pool, two on the way down and four on the way back up the river. I've not caught two trout on the same cast for a long time but to catch two sets of two on alternate cast, I've never done that before.
I had a few good pulls at the top end of the section I fished but nothing on the bank, may be I should have changed back onto spider patterns as the river fined down? I also caught all the trout on two very old fly patterns I've not used for almost 30 years!!!
Date:...12/05/07
Time fished:...11:30 to 17:30 Hrs
Weather conditions:...Sunny, blustery breeze, clouding over at 16:00hrs turning to rain as I left.
Water conditions:...River high but droping fast, plenty of colour.
Air temperature:...15C
Water Temperature:...11.1C
Bait:...North Country Spiders @ 1st but winged wet flies for most of the session
Method:...Wet Fly, 1 dropper and point
Results:...
6 small trout: -
13:05 6" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
13:10 10" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
15:20 6" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
6" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
15:25 8" brownie Mallard & Claret-dropper
6" brownie Wickmans Fancy - point
Brief description of the session & remarks:...This was both a fly-fishing trip and a reci trip for chub fishing later on in the summer. This was the first time I've fished the river Aire and the lower section of the stretch I fished looked very chubby.
All the trout came from the same pool, two on the way down and four on the way back up the river. I've not caught two trout on the same cast for a long time but to catch two sets of two on alternate cast, I've never done that before.
I had a few good pulls at the top end of the section I fished but nothing on the bank, may be I should have changed back onto spider patterns as the river fined down? I also caught all the trout on two very old fly patterns I've not used for almost 30 years!!!