I had planned to make a trip to fish the Little Avon this week but with lousy weather and a 140 mile round trip I kept putting it off. Anyway, the forecast for Newbury was good today so I fished ACW's little bit of the Kennet instead. Had a really good day - 22 grayling and 2 annoying rainbows (annoying, because I thought they were big grayling!). The really good bit though was that they all came to flies I had tied. In particular, 2 that were in FF&FT last month -the pink shrimp and the pinkie. The pinkie produced the better fish and the shrimp most of the fish but generally quite small. All caught upstream nymphing, about 3 rod lengths of line out using a coiled piece of yellow seafishing line as an indicator. Worked a treat.
There are, though, two problems with this fly tying lark....
1. I am now a bit sniffy about using flies that I haven't tied.....and there are loads in my box that I have bought over the years so I'm going to have to get less sniffy and get them used.
2. The materials can be hard to get. The pink shrimp used a thread that is no longer manufactured and Chris at Lathkill was able to give me a substitute. Tying some of the
JT flies is difficult becuase the materials are hard to source. Light orange poly yarn for example. On an earlier thread JT said it was a Waspi product available from Fly online....not any more it isn't! I ordered it and had a call from Vicky who told me it wasn't available and she was fed up of people tying flies with materials that are not easily available, she had made her feelings known to the culprits she said!
......anyway, some pictures
Regards
Peter
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