Had a great morning on the Wharfe today..

Caught a couple of small brownies first, here's one of them....



...then I caught this beauty! 15" and about a pound and a half.....



All fish caught on dry fly. The river was really low. Here's friend Andrew fishing one stretch....



Cheers
Stuart

Nice fish mate, did you chap the big fella?
hope you let him go

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Fish tend to look where they are hooked,...that one is looking to the heavens ,...so say a wee prayer.

Lovely fish by the way....tasty.

Lovely, powerful, healthy looking fish.

Offspring aplenty from that one.

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Am I right in saying the first one is a wildy and the second a stockie?

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PP - you know, I've no way of knowing. This is on one of the Bradford Angling Association Waters on the upper reaches of the River Wharfe. Not sure what their stocking policy is. Not aware of them putting any large fish in such a small water. Might go on their forum and ask....
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Stuart

... i was thinking the same Stuart

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I'm pretty sure they don't stock (if its the stretch at Buckden).

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The ones I have caught of that length on the Wharfe have always been lean fish so that ones a real corker

Would'nt have thought it was a stockie, unless it had made its way up from the Kilnsey stretch about 7miles. Lovely looking fish though for the top end
Jim

Put up a question on the BCAA message board and got a quick reply per below. Guess the answer is it could be wild or could have come up from a stretch stocked by another club......

Cheers
Stuart

“Hi there, just a general question on stocking. Are the club's waters stocked with trout, or are all trout wild? I have no complaint about the number of trout, I have been catching quite regularly, but I caught a 15" trout at the weekend and wondered about the likelihood of it being a 'stockie' or wild. I realise we can get fish coming into our waters that were stocked elsewhere, so may never actually know for certain, but just wondered whether we stock brownies or not?
Thanks
Stuart”

Posted by Stuart Welch | 28/06/2010 13:23:25


“Hi Stuart

BCAA stocks only a few of its waters with trout - see the website at Bradford City Angling Association - Restocking. The only location with regular (annual, sometimes bi-annual) is the Broughton/Gargrave section of the Aire. Some stocks have been put in at Burley on the Wharfe and at Buckden - Wharfe again - in the past. But that's it.

In terms of 'wildness' that's a moot point. There are definitiely some 'wild' ie not-stocked fish in all the rivers - that's the only reason why we're catching trout as small as 4 or 5 inches, since they're generally stocked larger than that. But even if BCAA haven't stocked fish, other clubs might have done eg just below our water at Buckden, Kilnsey Anglers have the fishing and they generally stock quite large numbers of qute large trout.

It would be interesting to know where you caught your 15 inch fish (and even bigger ones have come out this year too!). It could be either a stockie or a wild fish, with varying likelihood of either, dependent on where you caught it. If that was at Gargrave, likely it was a stockie earllier this year, or from last year. If at Buckden, likely a visitor a lilttle upstream from Kilnsey's water. If somewhere like Cononley, possibly a fish downstream of where BCAA stocked it last year etc etc.

Give us a bit more info, and we'll have a guess at a more specific theory!!

Cheers
Jim”

Posted by Jim Munden | 28/06/2010 16:31:30