Comments on: Grayling glory

By: Fishing Gears discount codes

Fishing Gears discount codes — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:26:48 +0000

I like especially like the pictures of the nymphs on the palm of your hand.
I agree, fishing in a small stream is a great way to spend the day.
Thank you for sharing.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:12:26 +0000

Hi Ian,

Merry Christmas to you as well. From what I’ve heard, there’s some amazing grayling fishing in the north of Canada, though of course it’s the arctic grayling rather than the European grayling. Beautiful fish.

Take it easy,
mike

By: Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:09:11 +0000

Hey Mike, great post!

I have yet to catch a grayling myself; there are no waters that hold them near me. I was in Alberta a number of times and within close vicinity of grayling water, but only had one chance to get up to it. I had a couple of hours, but the water was very low and I was probably fishing the wrong part of the river.

Maybe it will take another trip to Northern Ireland and then a wander to Scotland before I get my first. I’ll keep reading to see if I can learn what you’ve learned about catching them!

Merry Christmas and hope you have a great Holiday Season.

By: alan atkins

alan atkins — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:42:44 +0000

No worries Mike, I hope all goes well with the knee. Just drop me a line anytime you want to join us. We will be aiming to go out every weekend ( if condiitons allow) between now and end of Feb. We’re booked up for a trip on Saturday, so I ‘ll report back next week. Had a pretty good season last year with 14 sea trout and 19 salmon, but the biggest thrill was catching my first Kelvin salmon at the beginning of October, followed by 2 more before the end of the season. It was quite a thrill catching my fist salmon in the middle of the west end !!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Hi there alan, great to hear from you, and particularly glad to hear you’ve been out. This winter I will definitely try my best to get out with you and Alex, sounds like it would be a blast. Sometime in January might work, depending on whether or not I end up having the knee surgery I’m supposed to be getting..!

Take it easy,
mike

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:34:28 +0000

Hiya Pau, how you doing?

You’re quite right. To have fishing of any quality close to home is wonderful. Small streams with nice fish are truly to be prized.

Good luck in your hunt!

Mike

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:10:24 +0000

Great stuff Mike.

You’re a lucky man having a burn with grayling of that quality in it. I’ve been searching a few small streams myself this winter, but the results could be measured in ounces! It certainly beats standing baw deep in a freezing river swinging lead and tungsten around.

cheers

Paul

By: A Single Enjoyable Paragraph on a Sunday Morning - Fly Fishing Gear

A Single Enjoyable Paragraph on a Sunday Morning - Fly Fishing Gear — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:34:38 +0000

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By: alan atkins

alan atkins — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:26:00 +0000

Mike , congrats on your grayling success. Alex and I have managed to get out twice since the grayling season started on our favourite river ( 1st Dec). The first outing saw us arrive at swollen and coloured river after overnight rain. We knew it was going to be hard going but managed to find a coup,e of pods of fish resting in a back eddy. Sport was fast and furious and I ended up with 6 fish to 1.5lbs, a nice out of season trout and a finnock. Alex had 3 grayling and a lovely trout of about 1.5lbs. So, all in all, a successfull day in aklmost unfishable conditions. We returned to the river yesterday with conditions looking perfect, the river at a good height, crystal clear and a picture postcard winter day. We fished hard all day and concentrated on the usual hotspots, but apart from one large grayling that must have weighed more than 2.5lb, we didn’t get a touch. As we returned to the car we met another couple of fishers who had been using bait and had scored very well, both with over a dozen fish to 3lbs !!! This was very perplexing, but I have experienced this once before in similar frozen conditions and I reckon that the first real cold snap takes the grayling a while to get used to and they are unwilling to move toour bugs and expend prescious energy, but the smell of the bait proved too much. I would love for this theory to be proven wrong, but I can’t find any other explanation for our failure ona river that we know very well and using tried and tested tactic that ALWAYS bring us fish ?? Any other theories will be most welcome. You really must join us for a session this winter, I reckon this river is in the top three in Scotland, if not higher !! Keep in touch, cheers, Alan

By: mike

mike — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:17:16 +0000

Hi Tom,

Thanks a lot, much appreciated. I’m also missing the small streams. Seems like an awful long time ago now..

Grayling really are spectacular. If you ever make it to these shores, drop us a line, I’m sure we could find one or two for you to flail at.

Cheers,
Mike