maceo
Well-known member
Nice bright sunny day fishing on the Windrush yesterday around New Mill. Got a bit breezy later in the afternoon though.
The Windrush is a pretty little river, but seems very small and tame compared to my usual upper Thames. It's free fishing though and reasonably picturesque, but for me swim choice is dictated by finding somewhere as far away from the path as possible because there are loads of dog walkers and dogs running around free charging up to you.
One of the reasons for choosing to fish the Windy rather than the Thames was that I've been desperate to get back on the float and haven't had a good float session since last season. Wagged and magged it for most of the morning and caught a tiny gudgeon the size of my little finger and a couple of dace, but wasn't really getting that many bites.
Switched over to the maggot feeder for the afternoon and started catching brown trout! That's something different - I think I've only caught one or two of those before, but caught four on this session and all of a decent size. Thinking of getting myself one of those tweed hats with flies in it now!
Thanks to FM contributors for the ideas about using leger stops and a feeder boom - I was really pleased how that worked out and solved the problems of tangling that I was having.
Here's a photo of one of the trout next to my Lidl special £10 baitrunner reel, that's already earned its keep three times over. I did catch a bigger one than this, but it was foul hooked and so didn't count.
There's also a photo of the swim I was fishing - as I say, pretty little river.
The Windrush is a pretty little river, but seems very small and tame compared to my usual upper Thames. It's free fishing though and reasonably picturesque, but for me swim choice is dictated by finding somewhere as far away from the path as possible because there are loads of dog walkers and dogs running around free charging up to you.
One of the reasons for choosing to fish the Windy rather than the Thames was that I've been desperate to get back on the float and haven't had a good float session since last season. Wagged and magged it for most of the morning and caught a tiny gudgeon the size of my little finger and a couple of dace, but wasn't really getting that many bites.
Switched over to the maggot feeder for the afternoon and started catching brown trout! That's something different - I think I've only caught one or two of those before, but caught four on this session and all of a decent size. Thinking of getting myself one of those tweed hats with flies in it now!
Thanks to FM contributors for the ideas about using leger stops and a feeder boom - I was really pleased how that worked out and solved the problems of tangling that I was having.
Here's a photo of one of the trout next to my Lidl special £10 baitrunner reel, that's already earned its keep three times over. I did catch a bigger one than this, but it was foul hooked and so didn't count.
There's also a photo of the swim I was fishing - as I say, pretty little river.