stripey
Well-known member
Been on the Trent today won't say where , had a fairly good day not the stuff of dreams but very enjoyable ,fished a favourite peg with the flow to the left, which i find easier or more comfortable, been fishing for about an hour when i noticed a very big splash and a bow wave about 150yrds down from me, thought its probably a goosander or cormorant,so did not pay it any more mind, and carried on enjoying myself catching Roach ,Dace, and a few decent Chub, after approx 40 mins big splash again which was right in my sight watching my stic k float passing through the swim so i kept a watch to see which type of bird came from under the water, nothing became air borne,so i became very interested , so much so that it took over my mind and i could not concentrate on fishing, so i broke the tackle down packed it away and walked down to where the splashes had been, i got really low below the skyline in places where i could and searched the river has best i could, i saw a couple of black shapes which i did not recognise thought at first where big Barbel then they disappeared, so i still was not sure what they where, so i walk further down stream as far as a pipebridge which is the boundary of the clubs water, so i sat on the bank had a smoke [ yes in am a social leper] after about 10mins started to walk upstream back to my tackle and i noticed a object on the far bank under some alder trees it was quite long with orange/ dark yellow spots /markings i had not got a clue what the heck it was,then it moved towards the main flow very fast and there was a splash as it came out of the water, and dived into the main flow i think it was feeding on small fish or/and fry, this fish was deffinatly a salmon which is great regarding water quality in the trent, but my concern is once the landowners i e farmers realise that Salmon are back in the trent they will up the cost of renting the fishing rights to clubs and we th[course anglers] will be priced out by Salmon anglers, What do you guys think ?