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2016
Apr 8, 2016 18:49:00 GMT
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Post by rubble on Apr 8, 2016 18:49:00 GMT
Yes it's the unoriginal 2016 thread! First couple of hours of my season were spent on the Lapford Yeo. So nice to have a river you can fish in a westerly with the wind at your back! Quite a few trees down but still plenty of water to fish and no over-curious cows so far? Tried a small natural nymph to start until the trees ate it. Tried a much larger flashback hares ear goldhead nymph with more success landing about 7 by to 7". Also one smolt!
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Post by hardytim on Apr 13, 2016 19:35:31 GMT
My first session on the Yeo this afternoon, fished from Downes up to Kersford Bridge. A few fish were rising but hard to see what they were taking. Also saw a Mayfly coming off the water near the Golf club and lots of golfballs! Had 6 up to 12 inch on goldhead ptn.
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2016
Apr 18, 2016 6:58:39 GMT
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Post by rubble on Apr 18, 2016 6:58:39 GMT
Did the lower half of he Taw yesterday morning. But chilly but in less than 2 hours managed 6bt, best of 10" on a nymph. One came off after a brief struggle and immediately settled 15m in front of me in a foot or so of water. Without any need to move I cast above him and drifted my nymph down past him and to my surprise he took it and was caught. Short memory span or just really hungry?
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2016
Apr 18, 2016 12:32:51 GMT
Post by hardytim on Apr 18, 2016 12:32:51 GMT
Did the lower half of he Taw yesterday morning. But chilly but in less than 2 hours managed 6bt, best of 10" on a nymph. One came off after a brief struggle and immediately settled 15m in front of me in a foot or so of water. Without any need to move I cast above him and drifted my nymph down past him and to my surprise he took it and was caught. Short memory span or just really hungry? Hi Rubble, have you fished the Culm yet this season? Lovely looking river, but I hear it can be a bit of an enigma? Tim
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2016
Apr 18, 2016 18:13:51 GMT
Post by mojo on Apr 18, 2016 18:13:51 GMT
Hardytim
Think more of an enigma within an enigma, it is a fabulous river but very moody, i've fished twice so far this season and blanked both trips, if I didn't know better I would have said there are no fish in it, you just have to keep going until you hit a good day, then it can be great, do not fish to light as there are some very big fish in there and you never know what you are going to hook next, I love it because it is never the same from year to year, steep learning curve every year, you will usually only get one cast at a riser so make it count.
Mojo
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2016
Apr 19, 2016 6:28:18 GMT
Post by Pete Tyjas on Apr 19, 2016 6:28:18 GMT
Did the lower half of he Taw yesterday morning. But chilly but in less than 2 hours managed 6bt, best of 10" on a nymph. One came off after a brief struggle and immediately settled 15m in front of me in a foot or so of water. Without any need to move I cast above him and drifted my nymph down past him and to my surprise he took it and was caught. Short memory span or just really hungry? Think a bit of both rubble. I've seen some interesting things over the years that make me think that the fish have a short memory but also if the feeding instinct is strong especially when the windows to feed that we have both early and late on in the season are short then they maximise their chances to eat. Last Nov Lewis and I were fishing a really small stream that had rising grayling. We shared a rod and caught a number of the fish. We moved up into the next pool caught some fish and looked downstream and the fish were rising again. I walked back down the pool (only 10 or so feet wide) tied on a different fly and got into position and caught a couple more fish that started rising just minutes after I'd walked right through the pool. I fished a spring creek in Colorado and caught a trout on a #18 para adams. We came back 2 hours later and I caught it again on a prince nymph. Something similar happened when I was guiding a couple on the Nadder. The gent caught a fish with a distinctive mark on its tail and his wife caught it an hour later. It isn't just trout though and I am sure members here could tell similar stories with salmon but my favourite is walking a bonefish flat where a guy lost a fish and his fly only for someone else following up the flat to hook and land the same fish and give the fly that had been lost back to his pal! I'd have thought that if a fly was left in a fish it might go off the feed a bit but this thread also reminded me of something I demonstrated at a group day last Friday at a stillwater. There were a few beginners and I was explaining how to play a fish. I got them to hold the leader while I held the rod and really hooped it over. They were amazed at how little pressure they felt and I am sure if we hook and loose a fish that is really on the feed that it feels a momentum of light pressure and is either gone to ground but if there is a strong stimulus for food it quickly goes back to feeding. Who knows though, it's what makes it so interesting!
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Post by mojo on Apr 22, 2016 17:16:23 GMT
Went out on Wednesday with HT on a rare day off from his shop, first fish of the season on his first trip on a Grannom Pupa, a 16.5" BT
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2016
Apr 23, 2016 23:42:48 GMT
Post by royt on Apr 23, 2016 23:42:48 GMT
My congratulations to Howard, a real beauty, I’m guessing it was from the Culm. And a great photo Mojo, but next time a wider angle please so I can work out exactly where it was caught !
I decided to celebrate the Queen’s birthday by having an afternoon on the Yeo, upstream from Dunscombe (I think its what she would have wanted). A good few fish were rising (at long last !), no doubt in tribute to her Majesty, although I suspect the majority must be republicans and were sulking deep down. Nevertheless, ended up with sixteen, to 11 inches, all on dry fly, a CDC-emerger of my own scruffy creation - all the more satisfying since I started with a shop-bought klink that they completely ignored. Simply splendid, I hope She enjoyed her birthday as much as I did.
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2016
Apr 23, 2016 23:50:38 GMT
Post by boisker on Apr 23, 2016 23:50:38 GMT
Good skills guys and a cracking fish
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Post by hardytim on Jul 1, 2016 12:54:03 GMT
Had a few hours on the Creedy yesterday evening, downstream of Shobrooke Park. The river could do with some rain, some of pools are getting pretty sedate. Vegetation is at it's height now, which includes Himalayan Balsam- makes for interesting casting at times. Not much fly activity (very small olives and sedge, I think) and hence rises where few and far between. Had 8 out, all but one on weighted nymph. Interestingly, when I fished the Creedy in May, I mostly caught v.small fish 5-6 inch. Last night the range was 8-11 inch only! Walking back to the car, I stopped at the last pool (with steep eroded sides)and was tempted to dangle my nymph into the water from a great height. I was immediately greeted with a take and pulled out a 8 inch bt.
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