I have a couple of bugbears when meeting and talking to other anglers (not the two chaps I met this evening) but other guys who shall remain nameless. One of my bugbears is some guys ability to tell the size of a trout by the way it rises. Oh sure, I am quite aware that sometimes it is plainly obvious it is a micro trout however other times you see some tiny dimples and it could be a micro trout or it could be a two pounder. I have been chatting to some guys bait fishing and they point to some lovely looking rising trout and they tell me they are tiddlers.
Anyway, I got to the river straight from work at around 5pm. It was warm and slightly muggy, Atkins had told me the river was desperately low however I thought it looked to be at a great height. To be fair he was talking about Salmon heights of water so I let him off. I immediately had to put a chap bait fishing off the water for not having a permit, he said he was fishing for Perch and Roach however I had to advise him their was none in the river.
I wandered about looking for some rising trout after meeting another couple of fly anglers who did have permits. I then met another chap who used to do some work for the Clyde River Foundation
To be honest I did not think the trout were up to much and I could barely be bothered hanging around however at a long pool under a bridge an absolutely stonking trout took my dry fly and led me a merry dance because my net was missing from my back (my tatty old net was left in the car).
I wandered further up the river to another long pool and spent around an hour trying to work out what the wee buggers were actually taking. I first of all tried a comparadun however that was ignored, I then tried a micro fly which was shunned, I then finally put on a klinkhammer which just seemed to sit in the film and I managed to hook two of maybe a half dozen rising trout.
I have no idea what they were taking as my klink was then shunned – I seen some large olives, wee midges, smaller olives and one of these bad boys…
I decided that seeing as how I had a good session I could pack up early and be home at a reasonable time.
Fantastic session!
What’s the wee bug in the last pic?
Excellent! That is a cracking trout by anyones standards.
Nice post, some nice trout too. Any idea what the new build is, just downstream a bit from the Disabled Riding School? I posted this question on fishkelvin, but it looks as if no one posts there any more. The reason I ask is because my mate and I were going to fish from there, but they had a boom stretched across the river to, quote- “catch and spillage that may find it`s way onto the river”. They also have builder sized bags of sand at the river`s edge, right on the bend, albeit on polythene, but if there is a heavy rainfall, those bags will be swept downstream, silting up a fair stretch of the river bed. There have been a few of the banks washed away silting up a lot of the stretch to Maryhill Bridge, so the last thing needed is another possible problem.
Cheers Peter.