It is the first day of half term. What better way to start it off than go for a fish on my local trout lakes! I got up when I should of been fishing. So, I up into some clothes, had a cuppa and went down to the lakes. It was a perfect English day. Cold (ish), over cast and not a breath of wind. I tackled up and opened my fly box. I picked out a fly that had caught a lot of fish earlier in the year and cast off. I was half asleep because I had only been awake for about 25 minutes. Then, Bang! The fish hit the fly like a train! After that it just hugged the bottom of the lake. I thought it was going to get in the weed and get off but it thankfuly did not! It just went in the under cuts of the banks and I could not get my net to it . But, after a bit of a struggle I got it in the net and I thouht it looked like a good fish. Then I weighed it! 2 whole oz. over my personal best! That is a great start to the half term! First day, first cast and my best Trout.
fishing_chris,
great work! that is a nice rainbow trout! you mention that you fish the lakes. do you choose to fish the lakes over the rivers? or, are the lakes a more common and more prefered place to fly fish in your area? what other types of trout/salmon species might you encounter in the regions of england that you fish? welcome to flies and fins. seems that as of late there are many members joining from europe (france, holland, england, germany etc…) … great to see …. after all … from a fly fishing perspective .. the only thing that seperates the USA and Europe is the big pond (atlantic ocean) .. and we share that water already…
Awesome catch man. That bow is bigger than most of the fish i see caught here in the states. I can’t wait to see your biggest tarpon pics…he he
Nice fish! Sounds like pefect streamer weather. That is when you get the “big ones”
I went to the lakes because it is only 5 mins away from my house. I also fish rivers, it’s a brook. With brown trout, greyling, and some course fish in there. At the moment the river is very, very high and you can’t fish it from the banks and the only cast you can use is the roll cast. I hope to go to the river in the next week.
good looking fish!!! glad you beat your personal best. I bet you were wide awake when he wacked your fly.. nice work
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Nice work fishing_chris. I’m sure he gave you quite a battle. Nice story too. I wish the grass here was still that green.
That’s a nice fish and the lake does look good also.
My fish envy is coming around again, I only managed rainbows in the 25cm range this year.
Are you allowed to fish all year in your resorvoir (no closed season) ?
yes, the closed season is December – March but they thinking of changing it to closed July – August open to the end of December and closed January. So three months for the year are closed.
Do have the chance to fish for coarse fish in your area?
I live in the Netherlands next to the German border so my German trout river closes down on oct. 20th and opens again middle march.
In the mean time we fish for coarse fish in the Netherlands, at this time of year the prime target is pike.
After the trout season has ended on the river, I fish for greyling and some times I catch a chub and some some. The river is small and is not big enough to hold lots of different types of fish.
Great that you have grayling in your river.
We tried to stock them in our river for the last two years.
I have not heard of anyone ever catching them so I suspect the grayling have flushed downstream with the floods.
In our section of the stream chub are not present but far downstream I have seen reports of catches.
What is your most effective chub fly ?
The river I fish used to to small part of the River Servern (the longest river in the UK.) and they came from there. All the fish in the river are wild apart from and or two rainbows that have got out of trout farms up stream. Rainbows do not live in this country and I think there are only 1 or 2 places in the UK were Rainbows breed in lakes. Not a lab. In Britain most of the Rainbows now are sexless. They can not breed and we are told to take Rainbows out of the river if we catch them.