Brown river trout.

[mick dunn]

I was told by a very experienced angler that brown river trout were very hard to catch. Much more so than your resevoir stocky.

Red rag to a bull.

I have been down to the Derwent at Allensford a couple of times now before the heavy rain and paid for a couple of days days fishing. By god they are hard to catch. The experienced angler told me you can float your fly down the river and the river brownie will ignore it and take a live one next to it in the river. Do you know what he was right. I could,nt believe it. Caught one brownie about 6" on a dry mayfly and this was foul hooked in the side of its mouth!.

I am still very inexperienced but i am improving.

Mick.

[jamiebrennan]

I feel your pain! When i was a kid me mam n dad stopped off in Caldbeck in the lakes every time we went over for a holiday, i used to stand on the bridge looking at the trout rising in this little river, tried to catch one for years and eventually got one, not big but it was a wild brownie and to this day its one of the highlights of my angling career!

[mark]

indeedy. there's one little fecker I've ben trying to catch for nearly 5 years now. there's a pool in the burn in front of the house, holds maybe half a dozen fish, with 1 lunker that is maybe ooo all of 9 or 10 inch long

tried everything, had 1 take once and that was it. you got to stalk them, get to the river downstream of where you want to fish and sit down and do nowt for a bit

I've done this countless times on the wear up here, after afew mins they start to rise again, loads of em jumping clean out the water and shouting feck you in my direction in fishy language, as soon as you get half way to standing its like turning a switch off, they've gone again.

what I tend to do no is wade into the river at the start of where I want to fish and just stand still as anything, sometimes takes 20 mins before they start again, but I've been rewarded with some great wildlife in that time. Had a kingfisher about 15 foot in front of me me catching little parr salmon last year.

none of your fancy schmancy reservoir fluff either, good old fashioned patterns! Even the quality of the tying makes a big difference, I've tied pheasant tailed nymphs, to my eyes they are identical to some good quality bought ones, but nothing will touch them, but have taken on quality bought ones.

some of my traditional wets do ok though

well worth it though, and even little 6" brownies are really rewarding. took me about 6 or 7 trips to this bit of the wear before I got my first fish, must of weighed about 4 ounce! Best brownie yet was just under a pound on that bit, but have had some cracking sea trout and the odd salmon which was so good, I might try using a rod to catch one next time

[mick dunn]

My mate owns a small stretch of river down at Allansford just after the bridge on the A68. He said i,m welcome to fish his stretch anytime. He has a house which virtually sits on the river bank. Said in the nice weather he can see the trout swimming in a gulley which runs along side the river bank by the side of his home.

[YoursTruly]

The easiest trout to catch is a feeding trout.

River trout when feeding confidently are no harder to catch than reservoir trout.
The problem of catching river trout is usually something to do with the angler and how he/she approaches the task.

[mark]

The easiest trout to catch is a feeding trout.

River trout when feeding confidently are no harder to catch than reservoir trout.
The problem of catching river trout is usually something to do with the angler and how he/she approaches the task.

not up here

they're local fish for local people

they can smell an incomer from 500 yards

you should see what they use for dubbing

[marksworld]

would you not agree that a river trout has a varied feeding area where as a resevoir trout has just the resivoir to feed in, i know resevoirs can be huge but dont the fish just swim around it in shoals. i have sat on fontburn and only once not caught but there has many times on the wansbeck where i have fished for hours without even a sniff of a bite. just a thought



cheers
mark