The TT is looking good at the moment with reasonable water level and colour - although its fast receding. Fished upstream of the old crescent pool and up three or four bends. As usual the tiny lead eyed glow bugs did the initial damage with a couple of nice 48 cm freshies. I am still fishing first thing in the morning with 8lb braid, 2 shot above a barrel swivel and then the glowbug on a 1 foot dropper.
Also dropped a real strong fish that skipped all over the pool. I think part of the secret with the TT pools is finding the one drift that holds the fish. In a large pool you can cover all the water but invariably I find that they only sit in one specific place and you need to spend a bit of time working out the drift. THis may involve angling the line differently, wading to get over dead water, or even doing a bit of air mending.
Around mid morning I changed over to a more traditional rig with a black tungsten beaded size 10 PT above a bead head cadillac. I alternated between these for the morning and found that fish struck pretty evenly on both. No luck with the green caddis however.
Fishing died off around midday. Around 8 cars in the car park and perhaps a dozen anglers (and one dog) sharing the river.
Barbary B wrote: Also dropped a real strong fish that skipped all over the pool. I think part of the secret with the TT pools is finding the one drift that holds the fish. In a large pool you can cover all the water but invariably I find that they only sit in one specific place and you need to spend a bit of time working out the drift. THis may involve angling the line differently, wading to get over dead water, or even doing a bit of air mending. |
herring wrote: Another hard day working for Barbary - yeah right |
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