Isn’t it about time we had a West Country rivers thread. A thread celebrating of our small quick rivers and smaller quicker trout.
There are a few of us spread out across Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and west Dorset*, surely someone must be catching something!
*east of Weymouth doesn‘t count as West Country in my book, too expensive for a start!
Tuesday I had an afternoon on the Angling2000 scheme fishing the Torridge above Kismeldon Bridge.
Tis only a little river up there
I had a peek in the box where you post the tokens and the beat was fished on the Sunday and Monday before I was there so it must be proving fairly popular. That said judging by the lack of bank disturbance it didn’t look like anyone had fished the top half of the beat recently. But then again the top half is badly overgrown and will be nearly impossible to fish in two weeks time. It’s definitely a get in the water and wade beat.
I was hoping for some mayfly but I think I was a bit too early, one or two were hatching all day but nowt looked at them. The main interest was to the black gnat. There is a mass of nymph under the stones so on a warmer day it should see good hatches.
I got the grand total of eight. To be honest if they were all scrapped together into one fish they would have gone about a pound
I expect all the big ones were caught on Sunday and Monday
Lots of these about.
Tight lines
Andy
West Country Rivers
A french partridge mayfly seemed to do the trick although some of the fish merely slashed at it. Hopefully the hatch should get better over the next week or so. I ended the afternoon with 15, none less than 7" and four around 10"-12". Some of the best trout fishing I've seen for some years on the Axe.
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