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Post by flyboxfan on Jun 15, 2014 15:30:59 GMT
I still can't help thinking that there are too many rainbow in the River Exe. They made up all but one fish in todays bag. The beat that I fish has a standing rule to remove all of them that are caught to try and help salmon and brown trout numbers.
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Post by yeoman on Jun 15, 2014 16:28:40 GMT
How many did you get. Didn't have any this year Grayling fishing. Last season was a nightmare for them!
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Post by flyboxfan on Jun 16, 2014 7:20:12 GMT
I had seven or eight of them and just 1 brownie…...
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Post by rubble on Jun 16, 2014 19:27:51 GMT
So they're not dying then as some suggested they would?
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Post by paul on Jun 16, 2014 20:25:02 GMT
Hi, flyboxfan,
I too like catching wild brownies.
I flogged the Exe for about for hours a few days back for one 6' brownie.
Like to swap beats?
Cheers, Paul
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Post by jezney on Jun 16, 2014 21:14:51 GMT
How far down river are they still being caught?
Amazing they are still around.
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Post by flyboxfan on Jun 17, 2014 6:47:52 GMT
I fish just outside Tiverton, not sure these are from the release of last year or a few more escapees. I tend to find if I can find one, then I have a chance at a few as they tend to keep together. I don't find the same with brown trout.
Paul you are welcome to come and fish my beat sometime for a change of scene.
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Post by flyboxfan on Jun 20, 2014 7:10:24 GMT
Another evenings fishing. 3 more rainbows and 2 brownies. Sadly a lot of these rainbows are very skinny and in poor condition.
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Post by jezney on Jun 20, 2014 19:02:28 GMT
I never knew there were that many in the river.
I fished in Lincolnshire this week and they stock the river with them.Incredibly hard fighting fish.
Had a cracker that nearly destroyed my 4wt greys streamflex.
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Post by BarleBlanker on Jun 21, 2014 7:12:04 GMT
I never knew there were that many in the river. Nobody will ever say how many they have lost (or even admit to loosing any) but the numbers can run into the tens of thousands. There are only a few places on the Exe system that hold these numbers of rainbows so it shouldn't b too difficult to get something done about it... you would think... One way and another (disease, abstraction interfering with upstream adult and downstream smolt migration and these mass escapes) the rainbow farms really do the Exe no favours. It is good to hear that they are loosing condition, hopefully they will all peg out before too long. I don't know if it is the case with these most recent escapes but when I was down there they never went upstream in any numbers. On the Barle above Dulverton I only saw a handfull in twenty years. Andy |
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Post by flyboxfan on Jun 21, 2014 7:54:24 GMT
My biggest fear about the rainbows is that they push the brown trout and salmon out of the lies. This year I have seen many less "twitters" small trout and salmon about 3 - 4 inches long. It must have a long term and profound effect on the river. It is a rule on the beat that I fish that all rainbows must be removed.
If you find a fit fish of the right size then they are fabulous fighting fish. This batch all seem to be about 12 inches long.
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Post by flyboxfan on Jul 3, 2014 8:22:06 GMT
Still catching more rainbows than browns. However I did have the most airborne trout ever last night. A 12 inch rainbow that was training for a pilots licence - five jumps and none of them were belly flops. Wonderful.
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Post by flyboxfan on Jul 11, 2014 7:54:00 GMT
After two more visits I have finally had a day when I didn't catch any rainbows. I must have taken 30 rainbows from this small section of the beat over the last month.
It was a really interesting afternoon and evenings fishing. There were huge hatches and absolutely no signs of a fish. I don't think that I saw the signs of more than 10 fish rising along the full length of the beat. I flogged the water with dries, wets and nymphs and streamers and really struggled. I managed to land one grayling of about 8 inches, one brown on a dry and missed a larger fish when my terrier decided this was a good time to join me in the water making a big splash.
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Post by jezney on Jul 24, 2014 14:40:42 GMT
I shal be venturing out on the exe hopefully this weekend to a new spot I've not fished yet.
I've had a few rainbows out of the other stretches,all around 12-13 inches,some nice grayling and many a brownie,best around a pound and 3/4.
I will be trying out my new Hanak competition nymph line which is supposed to be the fly line manufacturers answer to a French leader (we shall see).
I'll also be fishing dries in the slack water but seem to be having great success long range nymphing in the fast,bubbly ankle deep water.There is much more oxygen this time of year.
Tight lines to anyone out on the water this weekend.
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Post by flyboxfan on Aug 30, 2016 6:43:30 GMT
Well two years later and I managed to get a very wet session in yesterday and the bag was still mainly rainbows
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Post by hardytim on Oct 15, 2016 17:45:16 GMT
Fished the Hatswell beat with Pusser this morning for Grayling, but saw none. I had two rainbows , both about 10 inch( and dispatched).
One caught on a Red tag was plump and in good condition.
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Post by yeoman on Oct 15, 2016 18:22:39 GMT
Think rainbows are technically out of season now,so be careful!
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Post by paul on Oct 15, 2016 22:30:12 GMT
Fasscinating 'angels on a pinhead ' type of problem.
Except on the Derbyshire Wye, rainbows are an alien, potentially invasive species.
For the EA to open the Exe to all and sundry to eliminate the washed out rainbows from the ecosystem supports this view (but of course they are sitll there and were before the big wash out!).
So, does the ending of the trout season mean indigenous browns'? |Is the EA instruction to kill all Exe rainbows still valid?
Does anyone know?
Of much greater interest is the fish Hardytim caught- 10" Hmm. Are they original (or later) baby escapees? Have they already started to breed? Probably not quite long enough?
Will the Exe rival the Derbyshire Wye as one with a breeding colony of natural(ised) rainbows and should we encourage them or knock them on th head?
Or are they - along with signal crayfish, which lipped gudgeon, terarpins, mink, wild boar and ?beavers?
I don't know and would welcome a bit of Buddhist enlightenment.
For the Buddhist bit I have the general corporation to match him, but can't contort the body into impossible positions or have it to the necessary level of patience!
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Post by paul on Oct 15, 2016 22:30:48 GMT
Fasscinating 'angels on a pinhead ' type of problem.
Except on the Derbyshire Wye, rainbows are an alien, potentially invasive species.
For the EA to open the Exe to all and sundry to eliminate the washed out rainbows from the ecosystem supports this view (but of course they are sitll there and were before the big wash out!).
So, does the ending of the trout season mean indigenous browns'? |Is the EA instruction to kill all Exe rainbows still valid?
Does anyone know?
Of much greater interest is the fish Hardytim caught- 10" Hmm. Are they original (or later) baby escapees? Have they already started to breed? Probably not quite long enough?
Will the Exe rival the Derbyshire Wye as one with a breeding colony of natural(ised) rainbows and should we encourage them or knock them on th head?
Or are they - along with signal crayfish, which lipped gudgeon, terarpins, mink, wild boar and ?beavers?
I don't know and would welcome a bit of Buddhist enlightenment.
For the Buddhist bit I have the general corporation to match him, but can't contort the body into impossible positions or have it to the necessary level of patience!
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Post by yeoman on Oct 16, 2016 8:14:19 GMT
I dont think the EA ever gave the instruction for all and sundry to kill the rainbows out of season in the Exe.I think it was a special dispensation to RETA members.
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