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nic
02-10-2010, 03:23 PM
in the winter time this is my favourite fish
because when the water temperature is down, they seems to be still active

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at -15 C temperature, the bank's of the river was frozen

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another fisher was here

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palewatery
02-10-2010, 06:05 PM
That's a cracking looking river, must be a beautiful place in warmer weather too. Very healthy looking head of Grayling in it as well, really love the look of Grayling in mainland europe.

Cracking post, thanks for sharing it with us.

Jim

jeepster
02-11-2010, 12:06 PM
Nice but cold. brrrr. http://users.dakotacom.net/~jeepster/tipshades.gif

martin_b
02-11-2010, 12:12 PM
Nice pics! We have plenty of grayling in some of the rivers here in Denmark, but they're all closed now due to the trout being out of season. Don't know why we can't go grayling fishing here in the winter like alot of you guys. Whereabouts in the world is this river in the pictures?

Martin

Brooktrout
02-11-2010, 09:33 PM
wow. beautiful. (i hope you got those guys back in the water before they suffocated. it's an issue of mine.) but really awesome pics.

ofuros
02-12-2010, 04:57 AM
Chiiiilly willy....looks like a very sheer & sunless section of the river valley, albeit an eerily beautiful one.
Not that I'm any expert, but they look like good sized Grayling too....Nic, any flies in particular that seduced those ladies of the stream ?
Would love to explore something like that myself....nice shots.

nic
02-13-2010, 05:47 AM
In the winter time for grayling, I use most of the time small nymphs.
if the water is deep, I use small but heavy nymphs
my first choice is a pheasant tail, with an orange bed head. if I want extra weight I use tungsten bed head. Another nymph is caddis pupa ,with golden bed head, tungsten for heavy.
hook size for them is 16-18-20.
very rare in cold time, they rise for small dry fly, in shallow part of the river. small like 24 to 30 size hooks.

ksbioteacher
02-14-2010, 03:01 PM
I'm both warmed and chilled at the same time. Thanks for sharing your time on the stream. I've got to go warm up my hands now, my fingers don't want to move.....

Chef
02-15-2010, 06:24 PM
Sweet shots! We even have grayling here in Arizona...sssshhhhhhh. :cool: It's part of the grand slam of feesh. Browns, Rainbow, Apache, Brookies, Grayling all in a day's adventure. If you want more in a day start off at the crack of dawn in Mexico and finish up in the Whites in the evening.

Great country!

rayfound
02-15-2010, 06:47 PM
Dude, amazing!.

I loved this picture!

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soupmix
02-16-2010, 12:32 PM
Those are some great pics. We use to have grayling to fish in Michigan many years ago. You could find them in a town called... (wait for it)... Grayling, MI. :lol:

But alas, they were gone before I started fishing.

Satoshi
02-18-2010, 07:07 PM
Wow!
Look at that dorsal fin! :o
Thank you for sharing.

Mostyn
02-23-2010, 11:08 AM
That is an amazing place to fish! Fantastic photography! An absolutely brilliant post!

Thank you!

Regards

Mostyn

grayling
03-02-2010, 11:03 PM
Nice trip photos and reality check ... i can almost remember what open water and grayling looked like. It might look like that here in interior alaska in another two and one half months ... unless i can somehow get climate change to speed up :P

I've got a new 8' 4wt Mcfarland 3 piece fiberglass rod ... and your photos have put me into full scale withdrawal fits :D