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Post by treefella on Mar 12, 2009 20:36:29 GMT
Weather looking good for sunday and the rivers are clearing could be a good opening day for a change be good to get away from the paint brush!!!!
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Post by yeoman on Mar 12, 2009 22:01:59 GMT
They give rain for Saturday.....Lets hope its not too much!!
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 13, 2009 20:01:34 GMT
No they don't! Mild and sunny with a light breeze for Sunday I'm going to get dozens on the dry Andy
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Post by yeoman on Mar 13, 2009 20:53:45 GMT
Yeh,your right Andy,the Met Office have changed it since last night.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 15, 2009 8:15:10 GMT
Just tied up a new leader, cleaned the line and popped everything in the truck. The bacon is cooking and I'll be ready to go when I finish my sandwich...I look forward to hearing how everyone has got on!
Pete
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Post by paulf on Mar 15, 2009 18:51:05 GMT
Best first day- one fish in just over 4 hrs - 7"- but only my third first day!
Salmon Hutch stretch of the Yeo.
Saw two flies hatch, both browny-grey, smallish with pointy up wings (my current ephemera classification method!).
Stiff back requiring internal Hibernian wd$) to relieve the ills and a slow puncture about shin height in my left wader leg- to be sorted anon.
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 15, 2009 19:57:59 GMT
Best first day- one fish in just over 4 hrs - 7" Well done, that's a whopper I did somewhat better. I landed more than one, but less than three! Mind you my two added together would have only gone about 8" Two or three more came for a look but I was too slow. It was however a glorious afternoon somewhere up on the moors. Unbroken sunshine and an upstream breeze Both fish fell for a dry half stone, a proper Devon fly for proper Devon fish. I challenge anyone to catch a prettier fish this season, look at the red spots on the dorsal and the red edged tail Anyone know what this strange moorland snot is? Tight lines to one and all for the rest of the year. Andy
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Post by treefella on Mar 15, 2009 20:17:26 GMT
my first opening day fish for a long time , 10" from the Creedy not the main river but the small carrier between the mill leat and river ,on a goldheaded hares ear, it was so warm in the sun great to be back on the river.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 16, 2009 8:41:26 GMT
I fished the Taw and had a few small ones by dredging the bottom. There was a half hearted LDO hatch which didn't bring any fish to look up and I saw a couple of March Browns too. I got to a nice juicy bit of water and was about to cast and thought better of it as an otter was making a much better job of the pool than I would have done!
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Post by terry on Mar 16, 2009 10:07:57 GMT
Had an afternoon on the West Dart up stream of the Swincomb. Just like a summers day. More Olives coming off than I expected and the river looked superb but alas no fish. Great to be out with the rod again though.
Glad you guys had a good opener and Andy that is a beautiful fish. Was that the East Dart?
Terry.
p.s. Can't seem to concentrate on work this morning.
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 17, 2009 9:19:46 GMT
Terry, not the East Dart although it does look like the bit above Postbridge. It is an Exmoor water the exact whereabouts of which is a secret for now...
Andy
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Post by paul on Mar 17, 2009 22:29:36 GMT
Re andy's superb pictures and query about moorland snot. If, as they look, they are hard lumps of rock I would suspect they are quartz. Given their size they would have been formed as a quartz vein inside the granite as part of the very last bit of rock to crystallize some 290million years ago. They have since been weathered out of the rock and subject to a lot of bashing about in water to knock off the rough edges. If that had been in air then the crysals would be like frosted glass.
Cheers,
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 18, 2009 9:12:08 GMT
Paul you are going to hate me for this. It was a jelly like substance not good old quartz. I have seen similar else where and heard all sorts of explanations from slime moulds to regurgitated frog spawn and even stuff out of babies nappies Andy
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Post by paulwhite on Mar 18, 2009 18:08:25 GMT
Regarding the `snot`, I believe it may be some type of jelly or slime fungus, although having googled it I cant find an exact match.
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Post by paulf on Mar 19, 2009 22:16:01 GMT
Dear Andy, No problem. If it was soft and jelly like there is only one credible explanation; it is out- of date Gink where thes olvent has evaporated. It is left, and decays, in various key localities in Devon as the (Mike) Weaver bird makes appropriate obeisance to the trout god- the only expalnation for his ability to hoover every trout from a stretch of river- a one man electrofishing kit!
On another topic altogether, Pete T is the arch pecheur provocateur. On Tuesday at a club meeting he was rumblng on for the seond time about the prospective use of a woolly bugger to wake the trout up at tis time of the year.(Apparently the trout had been having a go at his salmon flies and giving him premature excitement.
So when I went out today, I raided my lake flybox. No prooof of his theories, but the only fish I caught was a fat 8" on a 1 1/2inch orange headed nomad with a good black marabou tail!
I'd love to report, but sadly can't, that i also caught on a pink No6 gotcha left over from bonefishing last year. I didn't; but having been plagued on Sunday and Monday by nymphs lost on the bottom, I noted the gotcha didn't snag up at all.
on the way home, therefore, I popped into Howard's new shop in Crediton to get some dumbell and bead eyes to tie some ore conventional nymphs in the gotchas style so they work hook upwards.................
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 19, 2009 22:54:37 GMT
Paulf thanks for the explanation of the snot and also your thoughts on alternative tactics for trout. It is always refreshing to hear from a angler who can think outside the box let alone one like you who is clearly completely out of his tree! Tight lines! Andy
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 20, 2009 16:09:08 GMT
Popped a little higher up the Taw this afternoon than I have been fishing so far this season. River was crystal clear and in really good shape. I saw a few large dark olives coming off and a couple of rises from small fish. Even had this fella come up and take my scruffy klink which was my first on a dry this season, Paul, Woolly Buggers are soooo Tuesday night ;D
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Post by BarleBlanker on Mar 24, 2009 12:51:19 GMT
That's a nicely conditioned fish Pete. The best I could do over the weekend was this sorry looking little chap from high on Exmoor, maybe it is still a bit early for up there. Andy
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