Some sea-trout pics

[colin]

I know these should probably be in the photo section but I thought I would post a few pics of some sea-trout as there are no posts in here yet.

[macd]

lovely fish,

what was your set up?

[ballingall512]

Crackers Colin


Thanks for sharing them

[colin]

Nov 21, 2009 10:16:52 GMT macd said:

lovely fish,

what was your set up?

Thanks Macd, The fish weren't all caught the same night, I think these were caught over a week or two along with a few others that I didn't take pics of. They were all however caught in the same pool, which is probably one of or the best sea-trout holding pools on the river in my opinion. Yet people only fish the shallow tail as they think the fish in the slow deep main section are un catchable. So this year I set out to see if this was true. I had two main set ups both fished on a 10' 7 wt rod. The first was a 40+ floater with a 5' inter poly leader and a two fly set up with normally a flashy Alex tied on a long shank size 6 (secret weapon style) on the point. And normally a smaller fly on the dropper something like a teal blue and silver. I found a pretty fast retrieve was needed to do well, like as fast as you can possibly do a figure of eight, or even a roly poly type. But it was well worth varying it to see what was best as sometimes a slow retrieve would pay off. I fished this set up normally when I first got to the river at about 11:30 or midnight (later than most people) And would fish like this until 1am or 2am unless I was doing really well on it, this would normally pick up a fish or two most nights. Then I would change over to a 40+ fast inter line with a short tippet of 3 or 4 feet and a big fly like the large blue and silver waddington you can see in some of the pics, or other large aluminum tubes in black, black and red or blue and silver. Sometimes I even fished two tubes with success. I also fished this deeper fishing outfit with some pace and again the figure of eight as fast as I could do it seemed to work the best, although after a while of doing this your fingers start to ache a bit. Then later on it the night I would normally switch back to the floating line set up , then as it got light again I would switch to a normal taper floating line like a snowbee XS and a longer leader and a team of two small traditional wets for the possibility of picking up another fish before heading home. Fishing with these methods through the night normal picked up a fish or three and produced a fish all bar about two of nights I fished during June and July. About 25 of the fish I caught this year were caught like this from the slow part of this one pool that hold the uncatchable fish. This was my first season night fishing as I didn't have a car last year and had to rely on lifts from family members. I've got to say I love night fishing and will be doing a lot more of it next season. This is a pretty obvious statement but it's so different from fishing in the day, there really is something magical about it.

[macd]

thanks colin,

sounds like a fine summer at the sea trout- well done.

[skagit]

Nice fish Colin,