I ventured out tonight at 8.15 for an hour on the dry fly, I took my new SLA 10' 5# rod, Greys GX500 loaded with a DT5 floater and a nice tapered leader, well, things didn't go to plan, the fish were slashing at the surface and seemed very occupied by what looked like a red spinner, I put one on and nothing, tried a sherry spinner, greenwells, tups and several others to no avail, I'm no entomologist and coudn't work out what to do, so I had a rest and let the midges have a meal, at 9.00 the fish had settled down and I moved to some faster water, I made up a three fly cast with a partridge and globrite red on the top dropper, a partridge and globrite orange on the middle and a partridge and globrite green on the point, all three flies had a copper rib, within half an hour I'd had a dozen or so trout to 10 inches on the green partridge, I went to the fast water at the top of the next pool and was hit hard on the first cast, I never saw the fish for a couple of minutes, I though it might have been an escaped rainbow from Tunstall reservoir, after it decided to do a few jumps and pirouettes it started to tire, as I was bringing it to a sandy bay to land it, it woke up and off again, I had to let it go, another minute and it was mine, a fine silvery 3 lb sea trout caught on a size 16 fly and 1.5lb point.
If I don't catch another fish this year, I'll be happy with what I've got

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Wow, well done. Says a lot for your rod and technique landing a beauty like that on 1 1/2lb leader

Chris.

Blimey!!!

That was a good evening

I fished a 'green one' last weekend - lost it up a tree with two other flies on the same cast

How was the SLA? - I was thinking of a 7 ft #3 - They feel quite crisp to me.

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Very skillful playing to land a 3lb fish with a size 16 hook on 1.5lb tippet.

BK

Skill indeed with the sea trout You should be well pleased with your self.

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Eddie
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
Voltaire

I don't think any of it was down to me, just a nice actioned rod and 100% luck.

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