Post by hardytim on Nov 5, 2017 12:33:36 GMT
This season- CFFC have opened the club’s Lower Creedy stretch to Grayling fishing over the winter months. Yesterday, Pusser and myself spent a morning searching for the ‘Lady of the Stream’ in glorious autumnal sunshine.
Jim had not fished this stretch before, and I have only had limited exposure, so could only recommend one spot where I’d since a number of Grayling in the summer. Jim fished this spot right to the top of a riffle and caught a wonderful deep bellied 12-inch Grayling in shallow water on nymph.
I started at a pool a bit further up and stood for a while to survey the scene. A fish was regularly rising at the tail , so snipped off the nymph and put on a CDC variant- second cast a plump 7 inch BT was at hand. I moved back onto nymph and slowly worked my upstream for ½ an hour without sign or sight. Then suddenly the line tightened and I had a Grayling on, which again was about 12 inch, but not quite so plump. After another 7 inch BT came to hand I decided to move up and see how Jim was doing. We decided to fish in tandem and whilst standing mid-stream we could see a shoal of small fish (probably Grayling) actively rising about 100 yards ahead in a ‘glassy’ glide. We moved to dry fly and but despite stealthy approaching the shoal we didn’t see them again.
Jim stayed on the dry and moved up to another rising fish. A few casts later it was on and a very lively BT came to hand. With the cold water taking its effect on legs, we decide to finish up, so I had a couple more casts and caught a Dace of about 8 ounces, which probably qualifies as my PB Dace.
If you want to fill your boots with Grayling then there are many more rivers to fish, however Jim and I agreed this is great place to spend a few hours and you’re most likely to get a fish or two.
Jim had not fished this stretch before, and I have only had limited exposure, so could only recommend one spot where I’d since a number of Grayling in the summer. Jim fished this spot right to the top of a riffle and caught a wonderful deep bellied 12-inch Grayling in shallow water on nymph.
I started at a pool a bit further up and stood for a while to survey the scene. A fish was regularly rising at the tail , so snipped off the nymph and put on a CDC variant- second cast a plump 7 inch BT was at hand. I moved back onto nymph and slowly worked my upstream for ½ an hour without sign or sight. Then suddenly the line tightened and I had a Grayling on, which again was about 12 inch, but not quite so plump. After another 7 inch BT came to hand I decided to move up and see how Jim was doing. We decided to fish in tandem and whilst standing mid-stream we could see a shoal of small fish (probably Grayling) actively rising about 100 yards ahead in a ‘glassy’ glide. We moved to dry fly and but despite stealthy approaching the shoal we didn’t see them again.
Jim stayed on the dry and moved up to another rising fish. A few casts later it was on and a very lively BT came to hand. With the cold water taking its effect on legs, we decide to finish up, so I had a couple more casts and caught a Dace of about 8 ounces, which probably qualifies as my PB Dace.
If you want to fill your boots with Grayling then there are many more rivers to fish, however Jim and I agreed this is great place to spend a few hours and you’re most likely to get a fish or two.
