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Post by sanctuary67 on Feb 21, 2018 21:03:34 GMT
In most popular literature it is suggested that st don't feed on return to the river but merely acting on instinct or just natural aggression.
If this is the case why is it that you start fishing bigger flies early and then go to smaller flies as the season progresses. This doesn't seem to add up....why not just use the same size and pattern the whole season if all you are doing is trying to provoke a reaction ?
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Post by robmason on Feb 21, 2018 23:56:25 GMT
I tend to fish a fly according to water temperature and height and prevailing conditions rather than stage of the fishing season. Having said that i do agree that the anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Dry fly anyone?
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Post by Andrew Pieterse on Feb 27, 2018 9:22:28 GMT
A lot of literature (e.g. Falkus) actually does suggest that small sea-trout i.e. school peal , up to around 2 lbs, do feed in rivers.
This has been my experience as well. I've hooked and landed a few small ST up to around 1.5 lbs on small nymphs while fishing for BT.
In fact I hooked one on a #16 olive dry-fly in among feeding BT.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Feb 27, 2018 13:37:51 GMT
I do target them during the day in a variety of conditions mainly fishing for them in the same way as I would as trout. I've seen them consistently rising during a variety of hatches from BWO to mays. As Andrew says it is mostly school peal size but I had someone hook a fish of 5lb last year that was rising to mayfly duns. We hooked it and it shot upstream but sadly my guest locked on it as we were standing on a tricky perch that meant we couldn't follow it. It was one of those perfect head and tail rises! On the Taw the bigger fish arriving coincides with the mays and I've had people hook into fish as big as 8lb on dry flies. We'll let them dead drift through a spot first time and then give it a little twitch on the next drift. Here's a piece I wrote a little while back about day time fishing and I wrote something similar for T & S a year or two ago. eat-sleep-fish.co.uk/content/2015/09/day-time-sea-trout |
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Post by Andrew Pieterse on Feb 27, 2018 13:45:28 GMT
great article Pete, thanks
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Post by sanctuary67 on Feb 28, 2018 22:38:54 GMT
Wow....I'm amazed. Just thought that day time st fishing was an excuse for some anglers to put on a wet fly and swing it down stream on a dry fly only river.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 1, 2018 8:27:06 GMT
It can be sanctuary67 especially when the river is dropping or even a small window when it is rising but the school peal can behave much like resident trout even in low water conditions.
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Post by boisker on Mar 1, 2018 9:33:35 GMT
I got broken off by a very large Sea trout on the Otter 2 seasons ago.... fishing a size 20 f- fly middle of the day:P
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Post by sanctuary67 on Mar 1, 2018 10:58:19 GMT
I always viewed catching a st in daylight hours as an added bonus. When targeting them at night and landing a nice size bt I feel a sense of disappointment...the very same fish i would have been well chuffed with a couple of hours earlier. Silly really.
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Post by yeoman on Mar 1, 2018 11:46:15 GMT
I've had a few in the day when Trout fishing, you never know when one may come along.
Best one was a nice fresh 19 inch fish, caught on a normally hopeless day, bright sun, hot, breezy,and the river quite low!
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Post by sanctuary67 on Mar 1, 2018 12:40:00 GMT
I use Grand Max 6x 0.14 mm/4.75lbs tippet so if I do hook into something unlikely I've got a chance of netting it. The main reason I use this tippet is so I can pull my flies out of the trees without losing them !!!
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