River dove (Ellastone)

Went down to elastone tonight, I really enjoy this strech of water and have got to know where the trout hang out!
The river was in great condition with just a little bit of colour, there was a big hatch on of small black flys which the fish were preocupied on,
The fish were not having a go at any of my flys until i put on a size 20 klinkhammer type fly which did the trick, i caught 8 grayling and 6 trout all which were small but produced very good sport.
I have seen a very good sized brownie in a certain spot that will never take my fly on lots of previous occasions, tonight i hooked it and it fought harder than anything i have ever hooked only for the hook to pull after 5 min!! Gutted, i never even got to see the fish as it was driving deep.
I will be back again to have another go at him.
I have just started to tye my own flys so this was a great feeing to catch all these fish on my own tyed fly!

Glen

Fishing with kev in bank high water!

Hitting the wild again

Pure wild brown trout stream

Went to a brook/stream around the winking man area tonight,
I asked a local farmer i knew if he would let me fish a section i had seen,
This stream is pure wild with lots of trouty features, there is a pool every 10 metres that looks to hold wild brown trout,
I fished with a adams for most ofthe night and caught around 12 brown trout all were very small as the photo shows but were wild as they come,
I must admit i enjoyed catching these small fish as much as the bigger fish i have caught recently, there is something special about catching wild trout that have never seen a hook.
If anyone fancys a trip to here let me know as the sport is great with exellent senery, there also might be the odd wild clunker around.
Thanks Glen

River Dove

River Dove Ellastone (again!)

Went for another go on the ellastone strech again, this river is only fifteen mins away from home and is the best river i have fished so far, its has everything in the short strech it runs also being a lovely spot to be in, being used to living in stoke! these places are a joy to be in.
The fishing was hard tonight, the river was slightly up and coloured due to the previous nights rain, rises were still in the abundance but i had trouble getting any takes and went through my fly box.
I noticed that most trout were coming clean out the water taking flys, but dont know what these fish were taking, due to my inexperience.
Around half eight i let a adams run down stream of me in the top section, a very small take and lifted the rod into a fish which seemed to be very small, then the fish started to thrash in the same spot for a good 10 seconds, i thought this was another fish until the drag on my reel ripped off, the fish made a long downstream dart. The fish made at least 6 heavy darts for snags, i ended up with a lump of weed on my line which nearly lost me the fish,
In the end i landed a rainbow of the upper 2lb mark and this goes down as my best fighting fish of season so far.
I also caught a nice brown of half a pound from near the bridge at dusk to end another great night but while taking a picture it jumped out my hand into he river!

Thanks Glen