river wear

[mark]

had a plodge on (in) the wear yesterday, stanhope to eastgatre strech, masses of little uns rising to anything that hit the water. anything small and black was doing the trick, pulled in over a dozen little brownies around 6 oz! Switched to gold head hares ears, and pheasant tail nymphs and managed a couple of bigger uns, had 2 reasonable fish, best just on a pound, but fought like a demon.

high spot of the day, stood up to me wedding tackle in the middle of the river, spotted something blue coming at me bullet like, as it got closer turned out to be 2 kingfishers flying e=inches away from each other, as they were about ten feet infront of me they parted one flew either side then they joined together behind me and carried on upstream

there\'s one pool about halfway between stanhope/eastgate that had some muckle fish lying at the bottom (sea trout maybe) but they were having none of it, tried putting allsorts in front of them over them past them under them but not interested

didn\'t see a single person all day - bargain for a fiver!

[FISHMAN]

were do you get a ticket for there mark never realy got into the river side of game fishing but would like to give it a try.going to wales in june for week to fish the teifi.

[mark]

you can buy tickets from the newsagents in Stanhope. Have been told its only 36 quid a year to join the club, but I\'ve no idea where they hang out!

its a different sport altogether than fishing the big stillwaters, the deeper pools are only 6 or 7 foot deep and the water is gin clear except after heavy rain, so you have to do a bit of stalking to get at them, which all adds to the fun. Wild brownies from fast running water taste a hundred times better than the fat lazy stockie\'s.

Is incredible value comapred to other places, and if you time it right the wear has a massive number of sea trout