Silly Season Over
21/06/06
Well, I've been kind of
quiet on here for the last month. I can blame work to
a certain extent but probably more so is that it's
been a long extended duffers month across the Avon
catchment. It's been a frustrating mayfly season
however as the fish have been extremely fickle this
year, I've found myself having to change fly after
every rise to a pattern to keep any interest and the
attention of the fish seems to have firmly been on
nymphs/emergers rather than on the surface.
The Nadder hasn't really delivered a full on mayfly hatch for me, I've just had fly drifting off lazily without the trout particularly being interested in them. I had reports of good hatches around the Barford/Compton Chamberlain stretches of the river but I guess I just missed them. I thought having semi-retired as a surfer due to being so far from the sea I'd have gotten away from the 'you should have been here yesterday' taunts...
Having been busy most evenings with other stuff I've taken to doing dawn patrol on the Wilton stretch of the Nadder, at 6am it really is beautiful out there but imagine my shock when I came across someone else fishing one morning, 6am and he'd already been out an hour! good effort :)
I'll leave you with the sentiment that the Nadder is probably looking in the best shape out of all of the Avon catchment rivers, it may not be fishing the best of them all and is always fairly slow until mid-late June but as the shot below shows, boy does it look puurrty.
The Nadder hasn't really delivered a full on mayfly hatch for me, I've just had fly drifting off lazily without the trout particularly being interested in them. I had reports of good hatches around the Barford/Compton Chamberlain stretches of the river but I guess I just missed them. I thought having semi-retired as a surfer due to being so far from the sea I'd have gotten away from the 'you should have been here yesterday' taunts...
Having been busy most evenings with other stuff I've taken to doing dawn patrol on the Wilton stretch of the Nadder, at 6am it really is beautiful out there but imagine my shock when I came across someone else fishing one morning, 6am and he'd already been out an hour! good effort :)
I'll leave you with the sentiment that the Nadder is probably looking in the best shape out of all of the Avon catchment rivers, it may not be fishing the best of them all and is always fairly slow until mid-late June but as the shot below shows, boy does it look puurrty.