Two spin sessions with 40 trout caught & released... 6th & 7th Feb.
With some poor weather forecast later in the week I put two morning spin sessions in a row in on two different rivers. Both where early morning starts before the wind picked up and both days started off a little slow without a trout being caught in the first 20 minutes. After that it was really good fishing with quite a lot of trout of various sizes being caught & released over the two days.
The first day I managed to lose the first brown and after that I never lost another fish for the session. I caught & released 11 rainbows & 10 browns ranging in size from 290 gms to 770 gms, the best being a solid brown and the best rainbow 470 gms. I must admit I did catch the smallest rainbow that I've ever caught as well, how this little 'bow managed to get hooked certainly amazed me. It was really a fingerling as it was so small. This little trout wasn't included in my fish tally either.
- No.... this can't be true..
- First of the day..
- 770 gm brown, best of the session..
So in day one and just over three & a half hours of spin fishing I finished with 21 trout in what was a pretty good session. One brown & a rainbow were taken on the Atomic shad50 hard body in two slow flowing stretches with the rest of the trout being caught on the Mepps #00 copper black Aglia in the shallow fast water runs.
- Great day on the river..
The second day saw me on the river just after sunrise in what was good conditions with overcast sky and cool conditions with no wind. This session like yesterdays started off slow though I did lose three in a row before changing from a Mepps #00 copper Aglia to a Mepps #00 gold Aglia. The change of colour is what seemed to turn the morning around as from then on it all fell into place. Over three hours in the river fishing both medium & fast water runs I picked up 19 browns that ranged from 280 gms up to the best brown I've caught for a while, that being a beautiful well conditioned 890 gm beast. That fish was taken in 15cms of water and I drew it out from the river bank three times before he finally took the little gold Aglia. This was another good spin session on a river and my seasons tally is now on 460 trout at this stage after 53 trips. One I'm fairly happy with as I have had less trips this season, this time last season I had 64 trips for 458 trout.
- Solid brown taken close in by river bank..
- 890 gms of muscle..
- Little gold Aglia did the job..
cheers
Adrian
