An Evening Well Spent.

On Thursday, fellow blogger Mick and i paid a visit to the Lugg for a late afternoon/evening Trout fishing session. This was Mick's first chance to fish this beautiful stretch and i was interested to see how he would fare.



I left Mick at the bottom of the beat and walked up to try some of the deeper runs and pools. Fishing these swims with heavy nymphs, i hoped to find some bigger Trout as the Lugg fish seem to peak at about 11-13"



Fish were caught on this method but no big Trout showed , however some decent Grayling up to 15" were netted, most taking the Hares Ear nymph.

In the evening clouds of rust coloured Spinners danced in the air and Trout began rising to these as they floated down spent.
On went the dry fly and the next two hours turned out to be frustrating, as is often the case when fishing the dry fly. I did manage to catch 6 good Trout but only after trying lots of different patterns. With no imitative pattern in my fly box various emergers were used to catch the fish.




When i met up with Mick he'd had a similar experience, seeing lots of rising fish but only catching a small percentage. He did catch on the Pheasant Tail nymph earlier but struggled when the Trout began rising, again not owning a good spent spinner copy.

It was almost dark when we reached the car park and we had caught 25 fish between us, with Mick catching 15, mostly Trout with a few Grayling.




The Beautiful Demoiselle a stunning damselfly was seen, the males rest on bankside vegetation waiting for females. Only two species of damselfly in Britain have obviously coloured wings. They both belong to the genus Calopteryx. In this species the wings of the mature male are very dark blue-black and those of the female are iridescent brown-green. The body colour is metallic blue-green in the male and green with a bronze tip in the female.