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The early fog gave way to some pleasant autumn sunshine this morning for my last trout session of the season on the Club water. For a bit of fun I fetched my oldest rod out of retirement and fitted on an even more elderly vintage reel. Not a valuable reel, actually one I bought for …

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I decided to have a few casts on Tuesday evening to see if anything was happening. Not many rising fish at first but then a few sporadic feeders as I progressed upstream. Then I spotted a consistent rise midstream and covered it and then BANG. A waterspout erupted with ripples radiating out to the banks …

Continue reading “No fish in the river!”

The sun was shining when I reached the river this morning, but the gusty breeze looked likely to cause some trouble. After quickly losing a couple of flies I decided to shorten down the leader and stick to sheltered places. I eventually found a trout taking something beneath some trees, but the sudden gusts, the …

Continue reading “The fishing was a bit tough today”

Now that the summer heat has past, it was time to fish the Upper Water. The river has been refreshed from the previous weeks flash floods, these have cleansed the gravels, ready for the winter spawning trout and salmon. It was good to see a few rises at the tail of the first run and …

Continue reading “Autumn 2020”

Reports of excellent evening sedge hatches at the moment, bringing the fish to the surface. Charles Jardine and his son Alex had a cracking evenings fishing and experienced one of the recent gorgeous sunsets. Charles said “The Frome this evening…near indescribably beautiful…. and the reason why I fish and haunted by the places I wander …

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I see the Frome is out of bounds until the preventive measures can be relaxed. In Czech we are lucky that fishing, hunting and beekeeping are all considered sufficiently agricultural to remain permitted activities for the time being (with compulsory mask), so I was able to get out on our opening day, April 16th. I …

Continue reading “One Lucky Member”

I thought I would send you this picture in case it brings back pleasant memories of happy times on the river. Blue-winged Olives have recently become a regular feature again on our little village stream… the North Winterborne, which has been classed as a ‘Main River’ – mainly because of the need for flood management …

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I wasn’t expecting much from my morning session today. With the river low and clear I thought the trout would be difficult and easily spooked, and they certainly were. Although they were easy to spot all I managed to do in the first hour was send every fish bolting into cover. I found some otter …

Continue reading “Damsels and Brownies”