• Perusing The Menu

    Would Mr. Trout care to choose something from the spring menu?

    Maybe some cased caddis larvae? A good mouthful if a little crunchy. Annoying habit of hiding under stones so not so easy to pick off.



    Or possibly some caseless caddis? Much less gritty and easier to find.






    How about a stonefly nymph. Hiding under stones and crawling out onto dry land to hatch makes it a less than easy target outside of spate conditions.



    The traditional favourite - a collection of olive nymphs. A quick grub about in the weeds should turn up a few between hatches.



    A good big stone clinger nymph - this one not far off an inch long (including the tails).



    Shrimp, a highly recommended meaty mouthful.



    Available for a few weeks only - THE mayfly nymph.



    All the above found in three minutes sampling of a small Exmoor river. Our best sample yet with hundreds of olive nymphs, stonefly nymph and shrimp. Also found in the sample net were one mature bullhead, dozens of bullhead fry (all around half an inch long,a first for me) and one trout fry.

    Of course if Mr. Trout is struggling to find any of the above he can have one of these...

    A fly swap fly from another forum, it proved to be the killing fly on the day.



    The fishing was better than expected considering the weather.
    Here comes another thunder storm, will it miss us? (Note my mate Bill using that favourite old tactic - stand on a high bank in full view of the fish.)



    No!



    But between the storms (which, being the first rain in living memory in Somerset, had zero effect on the river level or colour) we picked up twenty or so Exmoor tiddlers from 6 to 10 inches.










    Andy
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