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Third Time Lucky
Given the choice of a few hours gardening, or a quickie on the river there was only going to be one winner. So after finishing work this evening I grabbed my fly gear and had a drive up to my favourite section of my local river.
Recent rains have added a little more colour and the extra flow is very noticeable. Using my favoured up stream tactics, I tied on a tungsten headed, red copper ribbed hares ear nymph, on point and a small black spider on the dropper. I worked my way through the swim beneath the aquaduct first without a take, but had the positive encouragement of seeing fish rise for the first time in ages.
After not getting a touch in the aquaduct pool I moved back down to the car park swim for the last hour or so, and had brief contact with two fish before landing this brownie.
As the light was fading I had a rummage about under some of the rocks in mid channel and caught this mean looking Bullhead and also a Stoneloach in my landing net.
There was one hell of a hatch of midges, and i was encouraged to see the occasional fish rising, but compared to last season the trout still seem to be really thin on the ground.
manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
Nice pictures 😉