Beautiful weather conditions had me up early this morning to give myself an hour to loosen up before I was right to head on over to a small creek for a spin session. I was in the water at 9:10 am and started off using the ghost brown lure in the low clear water. I soon had a follow from a small brown just as the sun started to touch the water in what was a very cool clear morning here. I moved on to a long stretch of water that had a few deep runs, it was here I had the best chance of catching a few trout. It only took a couple of minutes when I had a solid 510 gram brown take the lure and after a short battle it was it in the net photographed and back in the creek.. I had quite a few follows and hits and misses while fishing my way upstream, it was just under twenty minutes after catching the first brown I was onto my second one. This fish came darting out from under a small ledge close in on the river bank and just smashed the lure. It was a solid brown just like the first one, it too gave up a good fight before being led into the net.
- First of the morning..
- Ready for release..
- And it's back in the water..
With two nice browns being caught in such a short time I was pretty confident of catching a few more before I reach the narrow shallow water. Once I reached the shallows that would be the end of my fishing because the water is too low and clear for fishing, plus it will be in full sun as well. If the water level was around 4-6 inches higher I would normally continue on but that's not the case today as the water level is already a few inches lower since my last trip here. Any way I fished the rest of the deeper runs and picked up two more medium size browns before calling it a day. I was thinking about heading over to the Leven River once I got back to the car but thought better of it, my lower back & left hip wasn't all that good so I didn't want to make them any worse than what they were at the time. There's still plenty of days left to fish before the season closes..
- This trout darted out from the undercut,,
- Where the trout (above) darted out & took the lure..
- Small cluster of Fungi I spotted on the way back to the car..
Adrian
