Hot Fishing On A Cool Lugg

Fishing on the hottest day of the year so far, must be mad , indeed fellow P-Tail Flyfisher Nick and i just might be!
The Sun was blazing down when we arrived on the Lugg at high noon for a friendly fishing shoot out.

Nick suggested we do a bit of kick sampling which involves disturbing a small area of gravel/stones in the river and catching the small creatures in a net.
This proved to be successful with Rhyacophilia, Hydrosyche larvae, Baetis nymph and masses of Shrimp drifting into the net.




Walking to the bottom of the beat we passed another fly fisher half way down, but saw no rising fish.

This was Nicks first time on the water and he set off up the river searching using a Balloon Caddis with a couple of nymphs underneath, i decided to upstream nymph, using a Pheasant tail and Hares ear.
Nick ties up some lovely fly patterns and after a couple of hours, when we met up he had caught about 20 fish, all to the nymphs.

With the bright, hot weather the river turned off during the late afternoon with only one or two fish being caught. On top of that we were fishing water that had already been fished through earlier.



In the Evening a few fish were rising as we neared the car park, Nick caught a couple on the dry fly and i had five decent fish out of a riffle.

Over forty fish were caught, Nick having about 25 and me 16, not a bad day considering the conditions. Most of the fish were Trout with a sprinkling of Grayling, all looking fit and healthy.



We both enjoyed the fishing and being out in the unspoilt Herefordshire countryside.