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Post by halfstoned on Jun 22, 2018 12:25:45 GMT
It has been a funny season. Going from too much water to very little in what has felt like one move. Hatches have been sparse and concentrated and the fish have taken time to rise. The interesting thing for me is that the larger fish have been a little more elusive and despite a 15incher coming out on Monday I would have been hoping for a few more. I think the water has taken time to warm and had something to do with it and mayfly, where I am expecting to catch the real big boys, has been a bit erratic. I was doing some spey casting tuition Tues night and we watched a mixture of duns and spinners on the water that the trout were munching them. I think it was 2 years ago that we were targeting fishing rising to mays in July and we might be doing the same again this year. We've bounced back on numbers of fish though which has been good for visiting anglers. Probably not one of the easiest seasons but I think these are the ones I really enjoy as you have work to catch the fish but I'm weird like that! I suppose it makes the successes more sweet, nice to know that even the pros have had the same experience as us mortals , I had hoped for a spinner/dun rise on Thursday night but I think the drop in temperature killed it. Onwards and upwards.
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Post by yeoman on Jun 22, 2018 17:18:02 GMT
Have you had many Mayflies up on the Taw, Pete?
Been very poor everywhere I've fished this season.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Jun 23, 2018 8:08:54 GMT
halfstoned, yes, I prefer the tougher conditions to be honest. It tests me and my ability as a guide. I think my worst nightmare would be hitting a river knowing exactly what was going to take place!
It is one of the reasons I love the Taw so much in that it doesn't give up fish too easily so you know you've learnt them.
yeoman, we've had a few but not like usual. The hatch is spread out so it has been the case that the fish haven't really got locked on to them and the rises are more tentative than positive hard bites that we usually see. I think the fish have been much slower to come to a dry this year.
Grannom is when I really start to see the fish come for the dry and last year was probably one of the best I'd seen for consistently rising fish to olives in April/early May
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Post by boisker on Jun 23, 2018 8:19:34 GMT
It’s been like that most places from what I can gather... Certainly my usual rivers have been quite tricky this year, i’ve Caught some days with large hatches but often nothing rising. When I fished the Monnow with Dave last week he said it has been exactly the same up there.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Jun 23, 2018 8:35:11 GMT
I'd agree Boisker. I spoke to a lot of people at the Sportfish Show who were saying the same and the guide network is reporting similar stories with a few exceptions.
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Post by halfstoned on Aug 14, 2018 20:02:17 GMT
Grabbed a couple of hours here after work, the rain might have put some colour in the river but it's done nothing for the level. Managed four small trout plus two lost, very quiet, no fly life to speak of and not much rising . The stones on the river bed are covered in brown algae and had no nymphs on them that I could see, all this dry weather hasn't done the invertebrates any favours.
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