Fishing @ Mid April 2008

Some very cool fishing this week and by that I refer to fishing rather than the weather!

Settled days produced some great nymphing on stillwaters, with buzzers, PTN, hares ear and small damsels bringing home the bacon. We had several fish of the top fishing a black F fly. During the rougher colder days, it has been back to winter conditions. Small black, orange or white lures, buzzers fished deep, have kept fish coming to the bank.

On the brown trout front it seems the fish have started to move out of the deeps, we have taken several 4lb+ fish over the last few days all to small nymphs. These have tails live shovels and really pull your string!

Rivers Wye, Coln and Churn are coming on nicely, with more fish rising to midge and olive hatches. As conditions become more consistent (hopefully) top water sport will only get better. We managed a few nice wild browns last week on both HE shrimp and griffiths gnat.

Screeming Reels

Steve