Hi all,
I am hoping to raise a few bob to go toward helping a young man recieve a possible life changing operation in the States. Christopher Maltby is 6 years old and suffers with Spastic Deplegia Cerebral Palsy. Christopher has difficulty with many everyday tasks such as walking, getting dressed and writing. He has undergone all the treatments available to him here in the UK and now needs help raising the funds to travel to St. Louis in America were doctors there have successfully operated and helped over 2,000 children with Cerebral Palsy.

I will be holding 3 x Auctions,
This is auction 1 were i am offering a day's guided grayling fishing on one of my club rivers - The river Skell. ( December - Febuary )
It's a great little river with a good head of grayling, offering some very delicate runs and some more forgiving streches.
I've fished this little river for almost 30 years and i'm still loving it today. The lower part of the river is set in and around a Town setting, the upper part, heads up out of Ripon - and is fairly ruralised.

Chrissys Quest - Chrissys Quest Home Page

This auction will end at 19.30pm on December 2nd 2011.

I'll post some fish and river pics. for you.

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Another non day ticket water - stuffed with grayling, took the same guest ( who fished the Ure with me in the afternoon ) yesterday morning who commented ' what a great little river this is '.

Super lot if your new to grayling fishing - i'll also supply the flies

Great cause - so let's have a bid please i'm not that scary

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Must be worth a £20 start for you,

cheers Paul B

And it's £30 from me.

Cheers Fred - a great offer and as a Grayling novice a day that I'll definitely look forward to !

PM sent - and catch you soon - cheers, Paul.

Had the pleasure of guiding for PaulB on the River Skell today. The River was running quite low and fish were well spread, and took some locating - we didn't find any shoals which is unusual for the Skell and many local 'hot spots' were void of fish. However, the general conditions were still quite favourable for us and i was confident that Paul would pop his grayling cherry.
As per normal i managed to get out of bed late and had to ram breakfast and coffee down the throat en route to meeting Paul. We had a quick intro. then set off on the lengthy 3 minute drive to the upper beat.
I set Paul up on a trio and prepared a French style leader for standby. Paul settled in very quickly and landed his first ever grayling within 15 minutes, quickly followed by a lively oos brown. Another one of each came to the net soon after before i received the call ! The missus had locked herself out !.... Paul fished on whilst i nipped home.
Although the first section had popped Paul's grayling cherry but we hadn't seen any of the big fish i know to locate the area.....
Our next little ( but with some depth ) run holds some good fish so in ya go Paul. Paul approached the run with stealth and searched out well - nothing, we adapted the rig slightly and Paul hooked into a good oos brown, landed and quickly returned. We rested the run whilst changing to the french style rig. No more fish.





We made our way out of the water flanking some troublesome dukes ( that's ducks ).... only to be met by a large unleashed rotty - nice !
Back in the water, a nice deeper hole with some shelter. We spotted a grayling, presented flies which were ignored - today wouldn't be easy however, Paul managed another grayling here along with another oos brown.
Our next spot was a ' one shot saloon' run, very shallow, narrow and exposed. Paul crept into position and presented the fly on the button, his reward the best grayling to press, a good strong clean fish which put a hefty bend in Paul's rod. Luckily, it didn't have the water to run. By far the best catch of the day for Paul, not his biggest fish of the day but given the angling situation a very well caught fish.
A quick move up to a junction pool were Paul took another oos brown with no grayling showing - again, unusual as this pool is generally productive. A drop back to a bridge pool were a passing old granny took a liking to Fred. I stood back chatting with the old dear and watched on whilst Paul landed more grayling - a nice one included.




We had a late dinner and relocated down stream. More hot spots were fruitless so we decided upon a cast and move tactic for the remainder of the day. Paul managed another good grayling, not a Skell monster but a good fish all the same.



The day ended with Paul landing 9 grayling and around 4/5 oob's. A good result for the low water and evasive fish behaviour and a very admiral result for a grayling newbie - well done Paul.

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Thank you Fred for a great day - a great day with a superb host on a really interesting river - broke my Grayling 'duck' and I'd like to say I learn't a lot, but perhaps I should say found there is a lot to learn so thanks for being so patient with me (!) will definitely be putting it into practice practice and more practice ! Wading stretches of river one moment and then fishing 8 feet above the river the next stretch was also entertaining and definitely only possible when your host knows the way down quickly to water level when inadvertently catching a fish from a height - it certainly opens your eyes to using all the available dimensions to increase your chances.

Really enjoyed it, hugely appreciated it, many thanks for a memorable day !

Paul B - discovering grayling fishing is fun !