Dry fly Alumni…15th June

June 15, 2018

I was joined on the river today by Rivergreen ‘Graduates’ John M and John A. Both are now members of Corwen Anglers (CADAC) so we headed to the Berwyn Arms beat for the day.

 

With the Grayling season not due to start officially until tomorrow (16th june), I was determined to try to avoid them for one last day and concentrate on catching Trout. As one might expect, it didn’t go exactly to plan and after an hour or so of catching nothing, I would not have been sorry to see an ‘early’ Grayling glide into the net.

 

It was a much cooler day today with no pronounced hatch but instead, a smattering of Olives, Caddis, Yellow Mays and Terrestrials that tempted the odd fish up to the surface.

 

Then the wind dropped and the sun came out and a few small but welcome Grayling were taken on dry flies from some ‘unlikely’ water.
The activity was short lived and we again had to go back to prospecting as opposed to targeting rising fish.

 

It was though extremely gratifying to eventually pull a much sought after brown trout from a tight seam after it revealed its position with a single rise. Bliss!

 

Not the activity we’d hoped for but we were all fishing, in reasonably good conditions with reasonably nice people. Things could always be worse!

John A was first off the mark with a nice Grayling

Johnny “two rods” M with another Grayling to a Sun fly
Dee Trout on a dry fly…exquisite!
A Cased Caddis has built its home between two pieces of twig.
A close up of the resident Trichoptera Caddis Fly Larvae
Everybody enjoys the river in their own way

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