Well, a very soggy day today. Dreich, even. MattO and I ventured somewhere upstream of Alford. A couple of miles of water to play with - some of it stunningly pretty, with some very inviting runs and pools. A fair bit of scrambling around on uneven banks and soggy hill sides too - but all good fun. No one fell in. Except for Matt, he fall halfway in. Ach, it was raining, he was wet anyways.
Very very very few Olives or MBs though :-(
I think I saw 5 or 6 MBs all day, all around 3pm. Olives, a few here and there, but really nothing to get the trouts up.
We leapfrogged up the pools - Matto spidering and nymphing, and getting a couple to 1lb.
I waited for rising fish. First rise spotted was at 1pm ish, but never came back up. Next rise was in some soft water downstream of a riffle. Nice spot. Waited. Hung about for a bit. Drank some coffee. Ah, he rose again. then again, a little later. Covered him a couple of times before he took and skedaddled off downstream. Came back, screamed off again, sounded, and generally led me an exciting dance for close on 10 mins before I could slide the net under him.
Clocked in at just over 3lb - 3lb 2ish, i'd say. Still lean, but you wouldn't have known it from the tussle:
slipped back to grow fat and lazy:
Fantastic, and the 3rd 3lber in last 3 trips. Had one smaller trout of a 1lb later, but that was it for rising fish. Cracking day out, lovely water, a couple of great trout, happy days.
tight lines everyone for the weekend!
