The recent good weather was set to break at around 2pm today so I thought I’d head to the river Goyt for a first go at it’s resident Brown Trout.

 

The river was running a little high and was slightly coloured but it was the best it’s been for some time. There were no flies in the air and no fish on the surface so I tied on the pheasant tail nymph (PTN) that I’d fished with on Saturday. It was looking a bit ragged as some of the fibres had been damaged by trout teeth, or perhaps it was just poorly tied!

 

Either way, the unraveling pheasant tail fibres looked a little like legs so I fished it through the ‘Trouty’ looking water and was into the seasons first Goyt trout on the second cast.

 

After such a great start I thought I’d be on for a bumper session but the next fish was a good hour later.

 

A couple more small trout followed and just as I was about to leave I caught one of the largest Grayling I’ve ever caught from this river!

 

It’s considered ‘bad form’ to photograph OOS (out of season) fish as they are usually spawning and shouldn’t be handled too much so the big male Grayling was quickly slipped back to help repopulate the river. Shame though, it was a monster… honest!