Wye Salmon association Casting Clinic.
https://www.wyesalmon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Casting-Clinic-February-2022.pdf
SEA TROUT ?
Never really
done a lot of sea trout fishing but did go to Abercothi on the Towy now and
again and had a few fish from there.
However I
got to know the well known sea trout angler Malcolm Edwards, who was well known
to pretty much everyone if the Rheidol valley.
I ended up tying his seat trout flies and he was a great fan of smallish
Waddingtons.
On this particular
occasion he invited me to fish the Rheidol one evening below the bottom
dam. This was one of his favourite spots
especially the tail of the pool whose name I cannot recall and where his
memorial stone is now erected.
We wanted
till the June night was almost dark before starting and as was his way he let
me fish the pool down first. Sure enough
right in the tail at about midnight I had a really good solid take and a great scrap
from what we thought was a big sea trout.
Anyway he netted it for me, bonked it on the head and carried on fishing
and not using our torches too much. It
looked about 8lbs or so.
The twist in
the tail however was at first light when we had a good look at the fish and
were amazed to see it was in fact a salmon.
He was surprised as I was and he reckoned he had never caught one in the dead of night all the years he had
fished there. Another golden b++++cks
moment.
He became
ill well before his time and the last time I saw him was in Aberystwyth
Hospital. He was a good friend and
companion and he fished the Wye with me once or twice too, His memorial is a fitting tribute to a
dedicated angler.
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