Post by rich on Sept 29, 2023 16:53:35 GMT
Well managed to get out for a morning session to end the river season for me and I went to my favourite stretch of the Cherrybrook to start with .
River was a up a bit and had a good flow after recent and overnight rains .
I took 7 small Browns in the first 1 hr or so all bar 2 were on the dry fly a small black terrestrial pattern as I walked back down stretch I had just fished through I saw another angler starting to fish the same bit so went and told him I had already done the stretch . He thanked me and said he wondered why he hadnt had a sign of a trout yet! I decided to drop down to the start of the Cherry brook where it meets the West Dart and then fish it back up to the car .
By this time a lot of sedges were about so I changed to a dry sedge pattern size 14 and started working my way back up the river.
The dry was steadily raising fish up with some impressive smash takes missing a few as you do but increasing the tally landed nicely as I went along.
Downstream wind was at times a pain for presentation but was not constant so just had to be patient at times.
Best fish of the trip smashed the fly and gave a pretty impressive scrap on my 7ft 3wt in a small little run off from a pool and was a nice solid 11inch Brown .
Ended up with 18 all bar 2 on the dry so a nice way to end the river season on one of my favourite waters.
Now the long wait for next year!
Rich
River was a up a bit and had a good flow after recent and overnight rains .
I took 7 small Browns in the first 1 hr or so all bar 2 were on the dry fly a small black terrestrial pattern as I walked back down stretch I had just fished through I saw another angler starting to fish the same bit so went and told him I had already done the stretch . He thanked me and said he wondered why he hadnt had a sign of a trout yet! I decided to drop down to the start of the Cherry brook where it meets the West Dart and then fish it back up to the car .
By this time a lot of sedges were about so I changed to a dry sedge pattern size 14 and started working my way back up the river.
The dry was steadily raising fish up with some impressive smash takes missing a few as you do but increasing the tally landed nicely as I went along.
Downstream wind was at times a pain for presentation but was not constant so just had to be patient at times.
Best fish of the trip smashed the fly and gave a pretty impressive scrap on my 7ft 3wt in a small little run off from a pool and was a nice solid 11inch Brown .
Ended up with 18 all bar 2 on the dry so a nice way to end the river season on one of my favourite waters.
Now the long wait for next year!
Rich
