To catch seatrout in the day time. I have recently read a couple of articles on the relative merits of night fishing for seatrout. If you believe too much you would think that it is impossible to catch them at any other time. We all know that night is best but I have caught fish in broad daylight. Night time can be a bit fraught on a new stretch if you don't have the time to suss it out beforehand. What are your feelings............and do you fish for seatrout in daylight hours ?.............................birdsnest

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In my experience it seems when river dropping off from flood is best time and the most successful, also seems people who catch most are the ones who have the time to fish the rivers when they have dropped to the desired level when the water still holds some colour.Once the colour goes so do the chances of catching....ooohh to have the freedom to arrive at the right time eh......only happened to me once due to work though and i had 12 sea-trout and a salmon.

Ps...should have said, you can catch them on loughs in day light.

I don't agree with everything old Falkus wrote but he was right when he said seatrout are more likely to take a fly at night, my log from last year shows 267 in total with 97 coming to the fly before 9pm.

Interesting............what ratio of day to night fishing did you do?..........birdsnest

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Success with sea trout during the day is very location and conditions dependant.

Someone has already mentioned loch fishing and I've had lots of exciting, bright and sunny afternoons dapping.

However, bright and sunny, low water on a river and the majority of sea trout will scurry under banks, boulders and tree roots and not emerge until it's good and dark.

With a touch of colour and a lift in the water level goldheads are worth a try in the streamier water or indeed a dry fly if there's a bit of breeze.

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Yes lighthouse and g bigtrout, it seems that right time, right place is the key to daylight fishing. Unfortunately for me living in Wolverhampton I don't get too many chances at the seatrout and consequently have to travel. Not a problem, but having the time to work out a river beat before fishing it at night is. I guess that there is a glimmer of hope for daytime seatrout if the conditions are ok, dull, overcast bit of colour in the river etc. I am interested if anybody else does a bit of seatrout in the day...............birdsnest

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I have caught seatrout during the day while nymphing. Last year with all the rain we had, I caught more seatrout during the day nymphing when the river came down from a flood than I did at night-time. The seatrout seemed to travel straight through with the high water but nymphing was devastating when the water was just right.

Bert

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Tweed sea trout are very good takers during daylight hours - they are reputed to be not very catchable at night, and I believe conventional night time fishing is not commonly practised. Then again, on the Till, a Tweed tributary, I've had success at night.

I have caught sea trout fishing from a boat during the day on Loch Hope and Loch naver, that is the way it is done up there.

I have had few sea trout fishing for salmon with the fly on the Nith or Cairn, and not many get caught unlike on Rivers like the Tweed as has been said.

A popular method of catching sea trout during daylight on the Annan is with dry fly and it seems to work.

If I fish for sea trout on the River Nith in daylight it tends to be at either end of the day, daylight, or fishing up until dusk and I have had success but limited compared with night fishing.

I think the secret if to fish fine and very very carefully.

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I should have added in last post that I have a good friend who used to regularly take Sea trout from the River Cairn on dry fly and 2lb nylon.

Why?

He moved down to the south west from Musselburgh and that was how he and his mates caught Sea trout on the River Tyne in East Lothian during the day.

He did well to get sea trout from the Tyne on dry fly - the sea trout in the Tyne are very wary, the problem being that they are usually quite large and the river quite small! The few sea trout I catch on the Tyne are usually at dusk, or when water is up a bit with a touch of colour.