Gink fly dressing: http://geni.us/kq0VctW Flicker spinners: http://geni.us/cxAGy Third video in my fly fishing series. Early season, cold and only one fish rising. Did I catch it? Well the thumbnail probably tells you all you need to know, lol I was using a 7' Hardy deluxe smuggler rod (6 piece) with double taper weight 4 line and an up winged olive dry fly. Air temperature didn't get into double figures so the trout activity was very limited. Next video in this series was shot on a warmer day with more surface activity. And more fish caught?...... It's awesome to catch wild fish on dry flies and I love fishing difficult pools where many other anglers would walk past as they can often hold some nice fish. Thanks for watching and appreciating the videos. Check out the related 'Shooting and Fishing' playlist on my channel.
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Right, early April in the UK,
in the northeast of the UK that is, and unfortunately, although
it's nice and sunny, it's damn cold.
Temperatures aren't in double figures yet, although they
have been for a couple of days last week.
Water temperature's still really cold. There
is quite a few flies around, there's a lot of midges,
and I've noticed there's a few
olives as well hatching out from the river.
So I'm going with an upwinged olive fly, dry.
Even though I can't see any fish rising
and I'm going to give it a go and see if I can catch any fish.
I love fishing dry fly and I know for a fact
that the fish probably haven't moved from the bigger
pools into the runners but I'm going to try the runners with a dry fly.
I love fishing dry fly.
Yeah, maybe
it's when
the weather
warms up
a bit that
looks like
a cracking
place.
It's still just a
little bit too cold.
One fish rise,
one. It's risen a couple of times in the same place.
I've got the same dry fly on.
Probably is at the limit of my casting range,
so I might have to let it drift down a little bit.
I'm going to have a go for that.
That fish is rising way beyond
the capability of me and my rod.
I want to do this, but I'm trying quite shallow
here, so I don't want the fish to see me.
I've managed to creep down a little bit more.
The fish has risen a couple of times since I've been sitting here.
I'm scared.
I was
just
about
to say
that had
to have
gone
right
over the
top of it.
Brown trout, Salmo trutta.
Beautiful little fish.
Absolutely beautiful.
And that took that olive really well.
He's going to go back from whence he came.
Get up there.
Excellent.
Well, I honestly wasn't expecting to catch anything on such a cold day.
The top end of this pool behind me here is normally boiling with fish.
It's just too damn cold.
No flies hatching.
I haven't seen any fish rise.
So I think to catch one fish on dry fly was an absolute result.
It hasn't made for a very interesting video, but I've loved it.
I'd rather catch one fish on dry in difficult conditions than ten.
On wet fly. Don't ask me why.
I'm just like that. I just love catching fish.
Very difficult a day, but I still managed it.
Give myself a pat on the back
Hopefully next time I come down here, I'll catch more fish.
In fact, I know I'll catch more fish,
because I'm going to wait until it warms up a little bit.
Until there's a little bit more fly life in the air and on the water.
And even though this stretch of river gets fished quite a lot,
both legally and illegally, by people, herons,
otters, mink, muskrat, cormorants...
All of them things. There's still fish to be caught here.
I always catch fish when the weather's warm because I tend to fish
in places that are quite difficult to cast with a fly rod.
Most people ignore those places
so the fish do well in particular pools.
When it warms up, I'll be back. Thanks very much for watching.
