bela browns

with the weather set to change to wet and windy i had a day on the bela at milnthorpe today (weds),I got there about 2 oclock and on getting to the river it was nice to see lots of rising fish.

I made my way up several pools casting at rising fish and had caught quite a few the best weighing just over 1 1/4 lb . on the way back to the car i spotted a huge trout at the head of a pool i sat down and watched for a good 15 mins i had a couple of casts at it but it wasnt having any of it,but at least it will be there for another day.

bela brown



a 1 lb bela brown

blandswath brace

With  a week off work i had a day on the eden today i decided to fish blanswath and on setting up the farmer in the field next to the river was cutting the grass the result was lots of terrestrials and dung flys were getting blown onto the river i could see lots of fish to go at and you can see by the pictures below i had a few out.

22 1/2

21 inch

on the river

Sunday i had a day on the river with tony riley the river was a bit up and coloured but the wether was overcast and warm.On getting on the river we walked the bank looking for feeding fish and trying to winkle out the odd fish as you can see from the photos we caught a few nice fish.We both hooked and lost a number of fish,poor tony hooked and lost a right lump he was gutted.

my contribution from the day

albert breaks his duck

This sat afternoon i met up with albert pettigrew as he was keen  to have a go at float tubing on knottallow as you can see from the pics it was quite choppy but between us we had several fish out mainly on spider patterns




albert setting sail

the stamp of fish we caught

albert playing a nice trout