Comments on: April shennanigans

By: alan atkins

alan atkins — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:34:00 +0000

Mike, i’ve had a sneek preview via Alistair, but will be keen ot hear it from the horse’s mouth as it were. The sea trout will be in the river i fish over the next couple of weeks. The council ( in their wisdom!) have taken the governments’ s advice to the letter and haave imposed a ban on the killing of all fish until the end of June, so you can come and fish c and r and have the river to yourself probably or wait until the end of June and have the right to take a fish. I’ll probably go up for a couple of exploratory sessions at the bebinning of June, you are more than welcome to join me.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:14:26 +0000

Hi Alan, thanks very much for the kind words and for posting some interesting thoughts. Although I didn’t make specific mention of it in the post, I did see this fish rise multiple times to March Browns. If you think that’s interesting, just wait for my next post…!

By: alan atkins

alan atkins — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:30 +0000

Congratulations Mike, quite an achievement !! It ‘s definately a sea trout but hard to tell if its a kelt or not wihtout examining for gill maggots and having the fish’s dimensions inrelation to its weight. The ragged tial fin could be a give away, but as you said the fish could have had an encounter with a seal on its way to the river. It also depends on where you caught it, as some rivers have early running sea trout, however, there will stillbe kelts about and sea trout kelts will mend even better than salmon and actually start feeding agin before making a break for the salt again. I now that sea trout can be targetted with the dry flee on the Annan and the Nith but on most other rivers if you catch one on the dry then it will be by accident, but what a wonderful suprise. That’s a good sea trout in any one’s books and i’m sure it gave you some fight. Next misison to get one at night?!