Here are some photos from this afternoon. I'm in Courchevel at the moment and the beauty of April is you can ski in the morning and fish in the afternoon (no one else seems to have figured this out!).










I caught a few tiny brownies and what I think are my first brookies!
I nearly had a larger one of about a pound and a half but it took my ptn coming towards me very slowly and I managed to pull it straight back out of its mouth

Varzy
ps, is it raining in england?!

Stunning photos mate.
Thanks for sharing.
Dom

That does, indeed, look like a brook trout.

I didn't know there were any brook trout in Europe, they're not native there I thought?

Grouse

Cracking photos mate.
Thank you for sharing them with us.
Mark..

Nice stuff....Brookies are some of my favorite fish to catch. And a lot of times they live in water so clear (as in your pics) that approaching them is very difficult, as I'm sure you found out.

This is what some of the fishing in my home territory here in Colorado looks like...very similar terrain. Preetty soon it will be ice free and time to return to my summertime haunts. Lookin' forward to it....and here's hoping you enjoy more successful Brookie fishing yourself. Looks like a great place.

Mark

It also looks like an Arctic Char, lovely looking fish, caught a couple a few years ago from Glencourse resoviour Edinburgh, could Brook trout and arctic char be one and the same ?

Scott

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The fish are really easy to spook, I didn't realise at first because instead of disappearing they just ignore you!

A few more pics...






this bottom ones a river I found a couple of valleys over, unfortunately I only had a snowboard and no fishing rod


Varzy

Varzy,

Try a woolly ****** for the bigger fish, I have had great success with it in the high lakes of the Pyrenees!

Great pics as usual Varzy.

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A black woolly ****** was one of the many flies I tried. It was a size 10 and about 1 1/2" long, probably too big + I think I had already spooked the fish. My 'holiday' fly box only has one of each of a random selection of flies and that includes salmon flies, pike, poppers along with the usual. When I come back out I'll be better prepared.