North West Water beats - Ribble/Hodder/Calder at Mitton - Page 18

North Country Angler · #**171** (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by drjon

Last few outings here, the latest being today, have caught plenty parr, chub, dace, small salmon & today 6 grayling all on traditional wets.

I have yet to catch a trout on this stretch, now managed by the new passport system.

Anyone else seen trout ?

Seem to be tons of small salmon about & a lot of course fish.

Just wondering why.

Jon

Interesting. Have you seen my latest blog post (link below)?

st7 · #**172** (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 05:33 PM

I fish the beat above and there are wild browns in the area but very hard to catch due to the amount of hammering they get. Best chance is very early morning or at night. Best I've had is 6lb at night

drjon · #**173** (**permalink**) 30-08-2011, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by st7

Small salmon??? Do you mean sea trout?

Some small sea trout, but a few small salmon also, around 1lb

Never seen a Brownie of any decent size on that stretch

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Originally Posted by North Country Angler

Interesting. Have you seen my latest blog post (link below)?

Intersting read & my thoughts exactly.

Have bookmarked your blog & look forward to some more reading.

Grayling seem to be in abundance as do the parr. Hopeful September will bring us better form.

Jon

tailingloop · #**174** (**permalink**) 22-01-2012, 01:34 PM

Has nobody fished the hodder over the last few weeks while we had the dry weather and frost? Not been on for a long time and itching to escape from my loft conversion job for a day,
Gaz.

calder fisher · #**175** (**permalink**) 22-01-2012, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tailingloop

Has nobody fished the hodder over the last few weeks while we had the dry weather and frost? Not been on for a long time and itching to escape from my loft conversion job for a day,
Gaz.

Is there grayling in the hodder Gaz ?
Ive fished the hodder on the PAAS stretch before, but ive only ever had trout and the odd sea trout. I didnt fish it at all last season.

SharkeyP · #**176** (**permalink**) 22-01-2012, 04:40 PM

The Hodder has a lot of Grayling in it! In much higher densities than the bits of Ribble and (Lancs) Calder I fish.

SharkeyP

flickupflickback · #**177** (**permalink**) 22-01-2012, 05:26 PM

i fish the hodder all the time as i live in sladiburn and it has loads of grayling ive had half a dozen this year over 12 inches and loads of little uns

tailingloop · #**178** (**permalink**) 22-01-2012, 06:05 PM

Yep Calder fisher, as flickup says, lots of grayling, some quite decent ones too, plenty of little ones, and the odd stocks escapee rainbow which can be a hair raising few minutes on a four weight outfit!
Gaz.

flickupflickback · #**179** (**permalink**) 23-01-2012, 08:47 AM

no never they never escape from stocks do they

theres always a chance of a nice ssea trout or salmon as well dont foorget and they really can pull your satring on a four wt

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