Hi Terry,

Eden thread gaining momentum nicely! I like the photos; keep-em-coming, Terry! Is his-nib's camera shy? he's hiding his fissog in all the photos!

Hope your fishing is going well; well better than my attempt at fishing today (fishing 10, catching 0) a fish-less but extremely enjoyable day out!

Steven, nice catenary curve (you've been watching Ollie Edwards?)

Well done, hope the Eden thread goes from strength to strength!!

Mostyn

Hi Mostyn, I am a bit shy, and so many people mistake me for George Clooney, it's embarrassing.
Hope your catch rate improves on your Thursday outing, it can't get worse than mine. Cheers.

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Hi all, great blog and as soon as I get away from the Wharfe I will be back up there. MrT and TC I will be dropping you a note to let you know when that will be, possibly next week.

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Hi Steven,

Yes I am a PAA member, we met at the social evening in February. Am off this week so might get another crack at the Eden before Monday!

Dan.

Dan, I am so sorry, of course we did, I have a memory like a sieve.
Hope we cross paths soon on the Eden.
Cheers Steven.

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Hi', All. Thanks for the kind remarks; but I have a confesson to make. I have not been fishing the Eden since the opening day, because it is my habit to wait until after Easter. I have had a throw or two with Steven's rod, but I often wait until May, because the fish are fitter then ( they're not bad now ) and I do take a fish or two for an elderly neighbour and her husband.
If I had been fishing, I am quite sure that I would be struggling to produce more than just the odd fish, and as I prefer dry fly or slack-line wet fly, Leisenring style, I would almost certainly have been tempted to fish deep, which is not my favourite method for trout, as I think it invades the few sanctuaries that they have in these days of advanced techniques and improved materials, fly tying etc. I am a bit of a dinosaur; 'Tacklus trampus', I think that would a good Latin name for me. Cheers, TerryC

Ive only managed the one trip out this year - 16/3/09, with just one brownie to show for my efforts, on a snowshoe emerger, there was only a smattering of olives which took the wing very quickly indeed, hoping to get out week after next, ill watch this space to see whos on form.

andy

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Hey TC and MrT, tight lines an' all but make sure you leave a few in for when I'm up in June pleeease!

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On the Eden yesterday below the willows at Bolton. Fished with two mates.

Total number of fish caught was 14 of which 5 were Grayling. Many flies hatching from 11.30 onwards but all within fast water. The river was very low and the fish were holding in the faster water.

I fished spiders upstream all day for 8 fish. Most successful spider was a size 14 March Brown. My mate caught his fish on a size 16 CDC comparadun.

Terry is right about the fish taking flies just under the surface at the moment.

The hatch yesterday included - LDO's, sedge, grannom and what I think may have been a March Brown.

BUT, you have to be stealthy to catch them.

Tight lines for the weekend chaps.

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Hi' Phil. It seems that the trout have switched on over the last few days, as a neighbour reported good hatches on Thursday and again today. Yesterday he dipped out as he went salmon fishing, but didn't take a trout rod as a back-up. Today, he had his first three trout on dry fly, lost two, and saw a very early Yellow May Dun on the Eden, near Armathwaite.
I could be wrong, but I'd guess that your possible March Brown was, in fact, a Large Brook Dun. If the fly you saw was a dun with patterned wings and an olive-brown body with red-brown bands, it was LBD. If it had a dark brown body, with straw-coloured rings at its body segments, and mottled wings with a 'window' as opposed to bars, it was probably a March Brown; although the scientists say that we don't have them in Cumbria. What do they know??? You had a good day, well done, good on yer! Tc

PS Slight digression -- the first sea trout have been taken on the lower river, best 6lb or 6lb 12oz I believe. That figures, as the bigger fish usually appear first on the Carlisle water, for example.