It's been a week since my last fishing session due to a trip to the hospital & today I was finally well enough to head off in the hunt for some wild brown trout. The weather was sitting on 17 degrees when I arrived at my destination, once in the water I knew that I would get a few trout seeing as the water temp was touching seven degrees. The water level was down by around three inches since my last visit but it still had enough depth & flow for a spin session. The Okuma Finesse ULS 6' 1-3kg trout rod couple with the Helios SX20 reel was already set up with the small Mepps #00 gold Aglia spinner and that's what I started the session with. The first stretch of water I fished was one that always looks like it should hold a trout but like always it didn't, I'm sure one day it will surprise me. Neither did the following wide shallow run but the following stretch of medium flowing water did where I had a follow from a small half interested brown trout and that's as far as it went. I immediately went for a change of lure, it was a #0 Aglia Fluo brown trout that I went for. With the water temp sitting on seven degrees I thought the duller blade colour would be better suited to the conditions.
The change of lure worked, the following stretch of water saw the first trout of the session caught, a small brown that was full of aggression. After that it became a little frustrating, the trout were there and all very aggressive, only problem was I hooked and lost three in a row. It was still good to see the trout were out and about and eager to attack the Aglia Fluo spinner. After hooking & losing three in a row I was seriously
thinking about going to a small hard body but decided to stick with the Aglia Fluo a little longer. There were plenty of good stretches of water ahead of me that would be holding trout, it was only a matter of time before one was landed. It was only five minutes later when I had the second trout well and truly hooked, a nice solid brown it was too. After a good tussle with this young male brown I had it in the net, that trout went 410 grams and was in top condition. It was taken close to the right hand river bank in a narrow stretch of fast flowing water. A few minutes later fishing a wide shallow run I was onto my third trout of the afternoon, this trout was a bigger fish than the last one. A long cast up & close to the right hand side of the river and a medium retrieve to keep the spinner at the same speed as the water sucked that trout right in. That cast & retrieve being close to the river bank drew the trout out from a under cut in the river bank and it didn't hesitate to take the Aglia Fluo spinner. It like the previous trout was beautifully coloured well conditioned trout that went 460 grams.
[attachment=6]First of the day..
cheers
Adrian
that counts. And equalling the record for the season, is a Podium finish.
