Post by halfstoned on Jun 6, 2019 18:20:26 GMT
For the first time in years I actually managed to secure two days holiday in June and decided to have a staycation and fish the CFFC waters. I spent Saturday on the Culm, Monday on the Yeo and Culvery and Tuesday on the Creedy. Saturday was hot and sunny and the fishing was tough until the late afternoon when a few fish started to move and some took my Mayfly in the faster water at the heads of pools, nothing large though ( well not by Culm standards). Conditions were better on Monday and although the Yeo was a bit slow ( not much rising) I took 11 fish to 12" on Mayfly and BWO soft hackle dry. The Culvery was interesting very tight casting and easy to put the fish down, luckily the twisting nature of this stretch means there's always something around the next corner and 4 WBT were caught with 4 lost and more missed, one of the losses was quite a large fish which went for the roots several times and did this to the hook
Tuesday was rather wet with nothing rising or hatching so I fished the nymph, in the slow water I animated the nymph by twitching the line or rod tip and in the faster water I just watched the leader for takes. Plenty of fish caught but nothing over 11".
I got the feeling over the three days that the fish weren't really "on", lots of angry slashing takes that for me at least are impossible to connect with. At least I finally caught trout on my Mayfly patterns having carted around a box full for the last two years.
Challenging fishing on the Culvery.
Some fish pics from my excursions