Richard Baker 6
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A friend of mine has been fishing an undisclosed, unstocked section of the river Itchen for Grayling this last couple of months. In this time (using worms) he has caught a number of huge, wild brown trout. All in excess of 3lbs, the largest a shade over 7lbs. I thought these fish were exceptional, but it appears rivers may hold a few more of these fish than we think.
Anglers fishing the edisford Hall beat of the Ribble for Chub in inter have had brownies over 4 lbs on bread. The fly fishers like me get fish no where near this size in summer.
I'm beginning to think a lot more large brownies exist in our rivers that I originally thought. Its occured to me though that to get that big they're probably not feeding on nymphs and olives etc. More like crayfhish, juvenile fry etc.
Having just read the Chalkstream book by Charles Rangley Wilson (giving accounts of all the major and minor chalkstreams in England) it seems these large trout were historically more common than we thought?
Have our light line foy fishing tactics on rivers with tiny flies conditioned us to beleive that anything over 2lbs is absolutely huge when they may be small compared to whats really out there.
Your thoughts?
Anglers fishing the edisford Hall beat of the Ribble for Chub in inter have had brownies over 4 lbs on bread. The fly fishers like me get fish no where near this size in summer.
I'm beginning to think a lot more large brownies exist in our rivers that I originally thought. Its occured to me though that to get that big they're probably not feeding on nymphs and olives etc. More like crayfhish, juvenile fry etc.
Having just read the Chalkstream book by Charles Rangley Wilson (giving accounts of all the major and minor chalkstreams in England) it seems these large trout were historically more common than we thought?
Have our light line foy fishing tactics on rivers with tiny flies conditioned us to beleive that anything over 2lbs is absolutely huge when they may be small compared to whats really out there.
Your thoughts?