Aye well, it looked like a beautiful day to go on a trout hunt
Water still high, but temperature up to 12 degrees and clearing nicely. Any hatch that actually took place was all over by 12.
I managed to hit one rising fish which was a cracker, but i dropped it from a high bank as Mr B was getting organised with the net.
So lunch happened and much chinwagging until we dispersed to try and find a fish or two, not much luck with anything showing, so i went back up to the car and got the streamer line to have a mess about.
Well messing about is one thing...... but this turned into something else................... All ended well though, even though halfway through the struggle i had to Phone Mr B who was 800yds downstream and he had to run back upstream to help me with a much bigger net!!
Not bad on a 7ft6" Bamboo rod!!!! My first Springer on the fly and my biggest tourist on the fly ever
34" bar of silver.
Still got the jitters now thinking about it.
Sandy