Jonty
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What a 90 MinutesBeats football. Nipped out after work for an hour and a half. There's a beck which feeds into the river I fish, we've got rights to about 400m of the beck and I don't really think anyone fishes it. I thought I'd give it a try. This beck is about 2m wide and 30cm deep and in some areas is quite wooded over with trees. I don't have a brook rod so I was having a fine old time in the trees, I was hooking a hawthorn on every cast! I gave that up for a bad job, slightly pleased as it does mean that I need a new rod if I'm ever going to be able to fish those stretches  So I headed for the deepest bit of the beck which is a weir pool, casting is also fine here as it is free from trees. First cast resulted in a fish! All 4 inches of him, small but perfectly formed with beautiful red spots. Chuffed to bits, I put him back and no word of a lie, second cast ended up with a lovely 6 inch fish. I was loving this!! After being out of the house for a maximum of 90 minutes, I'd had 5 fish in total, the biggest 10 inches, all of them really beatiful wild brown trout from a tiny beck. I think I'll leave it a while before I return, the fish obviously aren't shy and I'd hate for that to change. Fantastic fun though!! What made it really interesting was that I had two floes on the line, a pheasant tail nymph on the point and a small black spider on a dropper, the fish were pretty much 50/50 on which fly they took.
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Graham The Builder
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I bet you had a skip in your step after that outing, Jonty? It's great when a little trip like this bears fruit and I'm sure you will remember it for years to come.
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Jonty
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| Graham The Builder wrote: | | I bet you had a skip in your step after that outing, Jonty? It's great when a little trip like this bears fruit and I'm sure you will remember it for years to come. |
Yes Graham it's a great feeling, that one is certainly up there with my 1st (and only!!) woodcock!
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Graham The Builder
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I'm still waiting! 
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Jonty
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Pure flook Graham, and I did get a bit of a ribbing for the shot being a 'little low'
Did get my first squirrel today, I was down at the clay gound earlier, the owner said if I saw any in the woods behind the stands to have a pop.
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Snorg
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Re: What a 90 Minutes | Jonty wrote: | | First cast resulted in a fish! All 4 inches of him, small but perfectly formed with beautiful red spots. Chuffed to bits, I put him back and no word of a lie, second cast ended up with a lovely 6 inch fish. I was loving this!! After being out of the house for a maximum of 90 minutes, I'd had 5 fish in total, the biggest 10 inches, all of them really beatiful wild brown trout from a tiny beck. |
Nice one Jonty, that sounds like great fun!  Actually, it sounds like a lot of my fishing in my little stream. They are absolutely beautiful, aren[t they, these little fish? I had three very early yesterday morning, all around the six inch mark, but one was the most satisfying fish I've caught yet. I could see a fish rising, and there had just been the first midge hatch of the day. I put on a dry fly, no joy. I changed to another pattern (black knat from memory) no joy. So I wondered if they were feeding off the pupa or something. So I took my time, thinking it was going nowhere, tied on a suspender buzzer, crept right up and after a couple of short, flick casts, it took. It don't get much better, does it?
Most of the fish in my small river that I catch are around that size, but I have had a few around the 10 - 11 inch mark, which is quite big in here. But it doesn't matter does it? It's the thrill of the hunt and the catch that matters...
And you definitely need a brook rod. I know. I do too. 
edited to say: and a nice reel too. I mean, I know it is only there to hold the line, but if you are going to hold the line, you may as well do it in style...
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