I believe today is the first day I have fished on the river in December. It was a beautiful day and, as usual, I had the river to myself. There were quite a few mullet active in the shallows but they were skittish and the disturbance of a nymph landing on the water was enough to see them off.
I was hoping that a weighted nymph might be interest a fish or two even if there were no fish showing and I was fortunate to take a nice barbel. I would have done well had fish I managed to hook not thrown the hook. This happened with another couple of barbel and a pretty decent carp. Never mind. Such is life!
I used an indicator about three feet from the nymph. Unfortunately I couldn´t lay my hands on the yarn indicator I have used in the past and made do with a little piece from a wine cork with the leader threaded through it using a needle. It seemed to work fine.
I don´t know if I will ever figure out the fish in this river. Just as I was about to leave and it was getting dark the odd barbel began to rise to dry flies. Needless to say, they ignored the little dry sedge I floated over them!
The only fish I managed to land
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