its for “charity” innit
Christmas is the time for giving and it always seems appropriate to do something for charity.
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Tag: Grayling
The Red Tag Jig Bug
I have decided to have a go at making a SBS video of one of my favourite flies for Grayling fishing, the Red Tag Jig Bug.
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Opening time
It was very icy down there but I arrived just at sunrise and had the river to myself. I set up two rods both with french leaders and different sets of bugs.
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Bonnie on Clyde
I started off well upstream and fishing the French Leader on a pool I know has held a few” ladies of the stream” for me in the past. On my first run through the line tightened with the characteristic thump, thump of a headshaking Grayling and my day was made. It took me a few minutes but it was soon into the net, a fish on the upper side of one and a half to two pounds, a solid female grayling.
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Drookit on Severn
Before I was even set up James had risen and missed 2 or 3 fish!
It wasn’t long when I started to get some action myself. As the bugs swung round and up on my French Leader and I started to lift I thought I spotted a swirl- or was it just the water vortexing round some rocks? I put the fly in there again, nothing, then once more, this time a take, and a lovely wee summer Grayling of about 25 cms was landed on a pheasant tail nymph.
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