Yeo Is Looking Low

[grhe]

I spent a couple of hours fishing the Yeo upstream of Codshead Bridge last Friday afternoon.

I've never seen the river so low and slow. I saw one rise form but otherwise nothing apart from a plague of terrestrials. I planned to fish NZ-style but the flow was so slow that the nymph would not fish correctly.

Let's hope we get some rain soon...

[treefella]

Best fishing in the evening when it's this hot ,had a look at the creedy at the weekend lots of fish rising but with the river so low I'm not fishing .I think the less stress we can put on the fish at the moment the better,tell me why are you fishing with a nymph at this time of the year? if I had of fished last weekend I could have had a lot of fish on dry fly,just interested not a criticism
David

[grhe]

Jun 28, 2010 20:39:21 GMT treefella said:

tell me why are you fishing with a nymph at this time of the year? if I had of fished last weekend I could have had a lot of fish on dry fly,just interested not a criticism
David

Fair point. I wouldn't normally but, having only recently learned the NZ style, I'm practising it whenever I can.

[paul]

I'm hardly fishing at all at the moment as much to avoid stressing me as stressing the fish!

Wrt nymphs etc, !'m still at an early learning centre four year old level. I did pick up four small ones to the dry when I lookied at the lower Creedy following the pollution alert; two covering rises I saw, two came from nowhere.

The only other time I've been out was to the upper bit of the Culm. Here I also picked up four fish (both better than my average catch for an outing). No rises at all in sight. Two came to the dry cast into relatively fast water. With a long gap with nothing happening, and coming to longer, slower glides I tied on a nymph NZ style, working 2/3" below the surface and picked up two to the nymph. No idea what that really means except try anything if you're not catching!