Monday 10 May 2021

 River falling away now on uppermost beats but heavy showers may keep it topped up.  Still considerable colour

Bottom river will be out for at least the rest of this week and possibly longer - the other question is have fish had time  to access the upper river above Hay on Wye yet ?

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If you tie flies you know its pretty easy to invent something new any time you like.  I'm not too fussy about fly patterns to be frank but there was a problem with what to do with small Golden Pheasant body feathers from the side of the neck.  Longer ones are used for Shrimp flies or the Usk grub for instance but the smaller ones didn't feature in many fly patterns.

I devised the one below, tied on a single iron with an Orange tail and three pairs of G/P feathers on each side of the shank in a graduated way.  Orange floss on the body between the feathers and finished off with a J - cock eye.

Look quite interesting I thought.  Anyone like to try it? If so send me a stamped addressed envelope and I will send you one foc to try.   Hope I'm not making a rod for my own back!!!!   Jungle cock - ouch!!!!

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You might find this interesting;    How the Spey does it's habitat work.

https://www.speyfisheryboard.com/river-calder-restoration-2021-woodland-creation/

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