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nic
10-18-2010, 09:12 AM
Trout season is end, but we still fish for grayling ,
So, autumn is a good time to try a few small dry flies, with cdc wings

Cold days in the morning
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they rise with the sun
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small flies for ladies of the stream
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rbaileydav
10-18-2010, 09:25 AM
beautiful stream and beautiful fish thanks

DD

grayling
10-18-2010, 09:57 PM
It ain't over till it's over . . . 6'' snow at the house this afternoon . . . 10"+ on the Chatanika . . . breaking ice to get out to the water. It's over. Thanks for the screen saver this winter . . . as close as i'll get to grayling for another season.

AZWanderings
10-18-2010, 11:25 PM
That is one of the prettiest streams I've seen in a long time. Great looking water and nice fish. Thanks for sharing.

Ben

erics beetle
10-19-2010, 03:12 AM
Hi

A lovely stream and such pretty fish.

EB

BrkTrt
10-19-2010, 03:52 AM
Beautiful photos.
I love the Medalist reel. It takes me back a spell. Your choice of a fly box is great too.


Thanks,

Brk Trt

jw_sartini
10-19-2010, 06:28 AM
The river and fish are absolutely gorgeous! Oh how i wish we still had grayling in Michigan...

nic
10-19-2010, 09:32 AM
thank you guys, for your comments,

Nic

nic
10-19-2010, 12:38 PM
Lee
I fish this stream only few times, and only a small open part, which I like to fish with dry flies
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I did not catch bigger than this,
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But they fight well
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And go back
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I fished until this gate ,made by water
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upstream it look like this...to narrow, hard to go on
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Anyway I heard, that over this narrow part, it is another open one, and the Graylings are bigger, so I will go there, someday
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Nic

nic
10-19-2010, 04:21 PM
Lee

I don't know, I never fished a wild Brook Trout , they are not native fish in Romania here are only Brown Trouts and Graylings.
Anyway I heard about Brookies , they are very brutal, great fighters , Grayling fight well too, even twisting sometimes, but what is special for me is the unique way that Graylings take a dry fly.
They rise like in a slow motion movie, very discreet some peoples call them "Shadows". To see they rise is my favourite moments in Graylings fishing.

Nic

erics beetle
10-20-2010, 03:12 AM
Over here in the UK the Grayling is very highly regarded by river fly anglers. I am fortunate that I live in a part of the UK that has a strong population of Grayling in many of the local streams. In fact I have just this last weekend had my first trip of the year and on a new river for me to. I have posted a report on my blog which is linked below , apologies for not putting directly on here but appear to be having issues with posting photos at the moment.

There is also an interesting link on there to an article by Hans Van Klinken about the Yorkshire rivers and its Grayling population.

Doctor
10-21-2010, 06:54 AM
Wetted my whistle there ,
Sunday brings my first grayling day of this winter ,will be joined by my very good friends from the Monnow fisheries association on the 4 mile stretch of chalk stream near Hungerford in Berkshire .
Being early in the winter midday day should see some rising fish ,so dry may be the way too go ,if not it will be classic sawyer pt nymphs and small bugs ,for the clear slowish fairly shallow waters !

ofuros
10-27-2010, 09:08 PM
Thanks for sharing nic,
What beautiful waters you have there, lucky enough to be
graced with the presence of the 'ladies of the stream'.
Nice pics, love the touch of crimson red on their tails.

Ofuros.

Mostyn
11-10-2010, 05:51 AM
Some lovely ladies there Nic, great to see them, love the water and the photos!

Thanks for sharing them with us

Mostyn

Doctor
11-10-2010, 12:39 PM
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A few pictures of my bit of chalk stream the 3rd is the fishing hut ,where I BBQ steaks at lunch time.
The last month the wee klinkhammer has been fly de jour ,not needed to do any bugging yet .
getting colder though so these babies will get back on the go
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those are on the desk ready for debarbing ,i dont use them barbed at all

nic
11-12-2010, 02:39 AM
nice stream there Doctor,
temperature here is still very high, not normal for this month,
so I can fish with dry flies, no need nymphs yet

Nic,

Doctor
11-12-2010, 07:21 AM
nice stream there Doctor,
temperature here is still very high, not normal for this month,
so I can fish with dry flies, no need nymphs yet

Nic,
Nic with luck next visit next weekend will be dry again .
it is a very attractive system of carriers and a wee bit of the main river Kennet,sadly not a patch on how I found it first some 30 years ago .
It is located in the heavily populated south of England ,river flow has shrunk in those years , the lack of flow has meant huge build up of silt which has reduced the fly life bar the big danica mayfly ,this compounded with red claw crayfish (not native ) eating the eggs of fly and even the spawn from trout and grayling , and the fishing pressure has increased .
However it is within range for a days fishing and the days I hold there for up to 10 people are always fun .

hootie
11-16-2010, 07:13 PM
Awesome post,I have only caught one Grayling in my life.It was on the Big Hole river in Montana and was about 9 inches long.I caught Brown trout to 20 inches in the Lewis river and Cut/rainbow hybrids to 22 inches in the Lamar river but to me the little Grayling was the fish of the trip.

I live minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains and fish the tiny creeks for small Brook trout that have been here since the Ice Age.You have to walk in a few miles and sometimes fight the brush but you see no wet boot prints on the rocks ahead of you.

Westcountry
11-20-2010, 01:22 PM
Nic,
Thanks for those posts, the pictures are stunning.


I want one of these on my river!


I fished until this gate ,made by water
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Nic


Andy

68guns
11-20-2010, 06:13 PM
Nic.....Where can i get one of those flyboxes?

nic
11-23-2010, 07:31 AM
Hootie,
You are lucky, to live in such a beautiful place, so close to that wild brookie

Westcountry,
Below that gate, is the most prolific place, on this stream, I can fish there for hours and they continue to rise

68guns
I really do not remember, I have that box in my workshop for long time, and when I decide to separated my small flies in 2 (small flies and very small flies) it was the perfect fit.

Nic

Doctor
12-28-2010, 05:43 PM
Boxing day saw me being told by the boy that his cold said stay in bed so i left home after scraping ice from inside and outside the car
,and parking at the fishery not in the usual car park with its wee hill track back to the road .
Wise move here is the car park
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Over that bridge there is a short track with a slope up to the road ,did not fancy trying to get up that with out 4 wheel drive .
Cold all day might just have gone over freezing point for an hour ,but the magic of modern thermal clothing kept me and Vince warm .
Our first walk of the road bank kept us busy for an hour or more and not one fish was seen ,bar a 2inch grayling and a disturbed pike of all of a couple of pounds .
So it was time for the Kelly kettle and wrap our hands around mugs of tea ,whilst the kettle boiled Vince spied a rise in the cooks pool,and went to work ,
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And this was the result
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Later I found a pod of fish and had a good afternoon session with 8 to 10 fish including a brownie of a pound and a half .

rather glad when the light went and was able to defrost the finger tips !

nic
12-30-2010, 05:59 AM
Doctor,
Great fishing day in the winter , on that nice stream,
What flies did you use there?
For me is flytying time now,

Nic

Doctor
12-31-2010, 03:52 AM
Nic ,
on the day i had fish on #18 pink bugs and size 20 beadheaded pts with a pinky orange dubbed collar .
I am testing a set of flys for my days that have been dressed for me and the fishery .
I get a fair few non dressers on my days and they need flys and i dont have the time or will to dress for them ,so have given the job to a rather good new pro dresser in scotland .
Will try to get a piccy or two up of some of his offerings ,his interpretation of jaxes roughy is superb !

Jax
12-31-2010, 11:22 PM
Hi Andy; Some very nice pics but COLD! Not my cup of tea nowdays and fortunately in my area a heavy frost bis as bad as it gets. Looking forward to seeing Pics of the flies. Always interested in seeing new variations of flies. You can learn a lot.

Have a good and happy New Year. Jax

Doctor
01-01-2011, 02:24 PM
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Not sure where the glitery bit came from !

Usual rubbish photo ,but I like this varient !

Jax
01-01-2011, 09:35 PM
Nice very nice Fly. Like that scraggly look. The Blue flashy bit seems to be a Pick up. Have fun. Jax

flickfly
02-08-2011, 10:24 AM
Hi nic ! is that stream in Romania? Its a pretty little river and nice fish. Nice old Pflueger reel
OOPS! when I posted this comment I didn;t realize this thread was 3 pages already :oops: