martin_b
06-11-2011, 09:01 AM
The Ephemera Danica season is nearing its end here in southern Denmark. For me it has been an amazing three (or so) weeks with lots of fish, and even contact with a couple of the really big ones. I'll get those next year...
My friend Kristian and his buddy Brian came over to catch the last of the hatch a couple of days ago. It was Brian's first dry fly session on a stream; he lives in a place where coastal fishing is pretty much the only option. So he was excited to try for a wild brown trout on a dry fly.
First we went to a very small stream that has provided some excellent fishing for me this season, but not much was happening there. It was very hot and damp and no bugs were hatching. Brian's first cast to a likely looking spot was rewarded with his first brown trout on a dry fly, so his day was soon made.
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/brian.jpg
After a couple of fishless hours we decided to drive to a nearby town to grab some pizza for lunch and wait for the promised change in weather. While eating, it started pouring down, and it kept raining heavily until late evening. We finished our lunch and headed to a different stream I had only heard about. It turned out to hold a lot of nice wild brown trout that would eagerly hit a Danica imitation; a few flies were coming off in the rain, but it was clear that it's almost over for this year.
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/1.jpg
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/2.jpg
Kristian with the first fish from the new stream:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/3.jpg
Taking a break in the woods:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/4.jpg
Yours truly:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/5.jpg
Kristian again:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/6.jpg
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/7.jpg
My last fish of the day:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/8.jpg
Safely returned to fight another day...
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/9.jpg
Martin
My friend Kristian and his buddy Brian came over to catch the last of the hatch a couple of days ago. It was Brian's first dry fly session on a stream; he lives in a place where coastal fishing is pretty much the only option. So he was excited to try for a wild brown trout on a dry fly.
First we went to a very small stream that has provided some excellent fishing for me this season, but not much was happening there. It was very hot and damp and no bugs were hatching. Brian's first cast to a likely looking spot was rewarded with his first brown trout on a dry fly, so his day was soon made.
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/brian.jpg
After a couple of fishless hours we decided to drive to a nearby town to grab some pizza for lunch and wait for the promised change in weather. While eating, it started pouring down, and it kept raining heavily until late evening. We finished our lunch and headed to a different stream I had only heard about. It turned out to hold a lot of nice wild brown trout that would eagerly hit a Danica imitation; a few flies were coming off in the rain, but it was clear that it's almost over for this year.
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/1.jpg
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/2.jpg
Kristian with the first fish from the new stream:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/3.jpg
Taking a break in the woods:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/4.jpg
Yours truly:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/5.jpg
Kristian again:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/6.jpg
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/7.jpg
My last fish of the day:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/8.jpg
Safely returned to fight another day...
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/smallstreams/lastmayflies/9.jpg
Martin