A day on the small streams.
Spent the morning on the Little Avon. This is a lovely little river with some long deep glides and lots of fast ripples falling into deep pools undercutting the bank. It's only about 12 feet wide so it needs a small rod and I fish very short - 4 foot leader and a heavy nymph. Short drifts too, flip the nymph in, track it down 6 feet or so, lift off, move up, same again. It was a great morning, 16 grayling and a trout in 2 hours, with a couple of the grayling around the 1lb mark. Rather than lift off at the end of the drift, I tried to induce takes, slowly lifting the nymph through the water column. This worked well with plenty of takes but they were quick and savage and difficult to hit, and they were the smaller fish. The big grayling each came from deep fast runs next to tree roots....like this
In the afternoon i took a novice friend of mine to Box Brook. It looked perfect, it didn't co-operate! We fished for 3 hours and he ended with a trout and a grayling, neither of them big but he went home happy! (so did I)
I just love these small streams!
Regards
Peter
A small streams day
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