Feb 09 Fishng

Plenty of cracking sport with hard fighting winter rainbows for both clients and myself this month. Fishing small flies is not something many anglers do, on some days 16-18 buzzers were the key to not blanking! As temperatures improved, fish were more inclined to chase fry, providing some great sport.

On the river we were quiet client wise, many of you gearing up for the trout season to come or prepping for trips abroad, taking casting lessons. I maybe in a minority, however I'm fed up with grayling fishing!

Instead I've gone back to chub, enjoying bugging a couple of local rivers, landing some great conditioned fish to around 3lbs in recent weeks. Why the switch? The average fish size is far larger than with grayling and winter chub are in prime condition, fighting every once of their weight. With a good chance of wild fish to 5lbs on a 4 weight rod, that is what I call good winter sport!

Still time to get a few trips in, remember rivers close for coarse fishing after 14th March. Hopefully will get a few pike trips in too.

Tight lines

Steve