|
Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 19, 2019 8:39:09 GMT
The river is starting to drop once more and it looks like some settled weather for a bit, well, at least no rain.
Does it mean we might properly get the season underway?
Here's hoping.
|
|
|
Post by pusser on Mar 19, 2019 16:15:44 GMT
I'm hoping to get my waders wet on Sunday, so hopefully YES!
Tight lines all.
|
|
Dude
New Member
Posts: 37
|
Post by Dude on Mar 19, 2019 22:26:27 GMT
Few hours on the middle dart today for salmon, no touches. Lovely to be back out, wild garlic and wood anemones blossoming. Small hatch came off in the sunshine. Let's hope for a better season. Good luck to all!
|
|
|
Post by billyfish on Mar 20, 2019 9:14:04 GMT
I’ve walked the Otter quite a lot lately and it’s looking really nice. I could have started but I’m waiting to see the first rise. The relatively mild winter has left plenty of weed growth which should have helped the insect populations. The still waters are providing a regular imput until things really get started. Colin.
|
|
|
Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 20, 2019 14:15:14 GMT
I’ve walked the Otter quite a lot lately and it’s looking really nice. I could have started but I’m waiting to see the first rise. The relatively mild winter has left plenty of weed growth which should have helped the insect populations. The still waters are providing a regular imput until things really get started. Colin. I think I'm kind of with you Colin. The grannom hatch is generally when the trout really start rising consistently on the Taw although we did catch trout on dries a couple of years back on open day. I lam loosely planning to fish hard for salmon and then see what happens with the trout. I'm just back from a few hours on the river and there was a nice little trickle of olives coming off.
|
|
|
Post by halfstoned on Mar 20, 2019 18:42:03 GMT
Itching to get started, I purchased a new 4 weight for Christmas and there's only so much garden casting you can do, it's made it feel like a long closed season. Flies were all tied weeks ago.
|
|
|
Post by boisker on Mar 20, 2019 19:32:52 GMT
I actually remembered this year the the Ottery Club waters don’t open until 1st April, as do the Tone and Dorset waters.... so even though catch returns have been really poor the last couple of years I headed to the Axe for the afternoon. I intended to break my usual habit of only fishing dry at the start of the season until I have caught at least one wbt, so set up to euro/tightline. Worked the first few hundred yards carefully and not a nudge.... then a loss of concentration ended up with me having to re-rig, all the more annoying as I was in a really open stretch. At that point I decided if I am not going to catch I may as well do that on dry... so I spent an enjoyable hour or so casting my way up the river... but nothing moving, at all. So, just before I went home ... on a particularly fishy run and pool I switched back over to ”euro”.... 7 trout out of about a 15’ square area.... I guess they still haven’t spread out through the river! Nice end to the afternoon and great to be back on the river...
|
|
|
Post by paul on Mar 20, 2019 20:27:18 GMT
I returned to my car in central Tiverton.
There was a fly on the windscreen. Bright yellow body; twin tails.
Flew away just like a mayfly. Could it have been?
Will swing fly for salmon tomorrow- they have definitively been seen ascending at Trews weir iin Exeter, so confidence is at 2% rather than 0%!
|
|
|
Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 24, 2019 16:57:34 GMT
Back from London and good to be back on the Taw again. I was fishing for salmon but saw my first grannom in pretty good numbers and March Browns too.
|
|
|
Post by billyfish on Mar 24, 2019 18:46:37 GMT
I saw the first rise on the Sid this morning and then saw three fish rising steadily in the tail of a pool on the Otter this afternoon. I hope to have a go on the Otter this week. Colin.
|
|
|
Post by Pete Tyjas on Apr 19, 2019 7:56:10 GMT
It was nice to be able to target consistently rising fish yesterday!
Still some grannom about but we found midge patterns worked best.
|
|
|
Post by boisker on Apr 19, 2019 10:35:44 GMT
I still haven’t hit a session with lots of rising fish... just one’s and two’s... some huge grannom hatches, but not eliciting much excitement in terms of rises. I’ve been alternating between dry and long-line euro, with most fish obviously coming to the nymph. I’ve actually put enough time and effort in over the last 12 months (partic Grayling last autumn) to start seeing some results and improvement with the ‘euro’ style... had a quick hour and half early this morning and picked up 6-8 fish in the 9-12” range all out of very fast riffle water, ankle to mid-shin at it’s deepest... interesting as i’ve fished the same run before with dry and dry /dropper and never really caught much anything (perhaps 3 to the dry in 3 seasons), the euro/longline slays it in comparison.... I fished the same run a couple of days ago and had 5 (it about 20yrd stretch)... I also dropped 2 larger fish out of that short stretch this morning, one was noticeably heavier and it had a big old back, reckon it would have been over 15”... I went and stood at the point I hooked it, about 6” deep rewarding to finally be getting somewhere with the longline technique, but gotta say I am getting impatient for some proper dry fly sessions..
|
|
|
Post by Pete Tyjas on May 1, 2019 7:20:46 GMT
A real mix of hatches yesterday, caddis, stonefly, I think some Iron Blue, mayfly too both Danica and Yellow.
I'm not sure it is an indicator but I did catch fish on mayfly emergers yesterday just about the earliest I think can remember.
|
|