A few hours last night

[Dubbed Squirrel]

I went for a few hours fishing last night (have to practice for Friday).The river looks great apart from the lack of rain, it`s just bubbling over the rocks at some parts. Loads of minnows (see pics) just now in the shallows. evening hatch Ispotted this from the bank. Had a few 1/4lbers on a fly I`d just tied, in fact it accounted for most. It was a #16 black spider pattern with a red wire rib, 3touching turns mid body. My secret weapon for Friday cheers Peter.

[blackwater]

Well done on the fish, that river really is teaming with minnows!

BW

[flyman]

Great photos once again Pete,
NIce hatch of flysand plenty of minnows.
That spider sounds great any chance of a photo or
is it top secret.If u dont mind me asking how do u fish your spider patterns?

Jeff

[Dubbed Squirrel]

It certainly is BW, plenty of food for the trout. Peter Hi Jeff, it`s ok, my mate`s a member of another forum (not as good as this one), so we can tell absolute whoppers about each other . This is the pattern, I only tried it for the first time last night. the smaller is the one I used last night you can see the state of it compared to the #14. Oh I fished it mostly down and across, with a very slow fig. 8 retrieve. I also fished it upstream, but with the low water weed, I had to clean it nearly every cast. Another deadly one is one I tie with the fur from the base of a squirrel tail (Dubbed Squirrel, sound familiar?) as dubbing, which I tie hackled or as a gold head. It`s quite spikey when finished, but the trout nail it. Peter

[Greenheart]

Nice report & pics. Those are beautiful little Trout. Amazed you managed to tempt em with so uch natural food about.

[pingu]

stunning pics and a good sesh in the end

dave

[Baz T]

Nice report, lovely river. For a moment then I thought it was a swarm of overgrown midges in the 2nd pic !!
What is happening friday, you got a competition? or have I missed something. Which river is it, if you dont mind me asking.....

[Dubbed Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Baz T

Nice report, lovely river. For a moment then I thought it was a swarm of overgrown midges in the 2nd pic !!
What is happening friday, you got a competition? or have I missed something. Which river is it, if you dont mind me asking.....

Hi Baz T, my mate and I have a bet on who has the best season, we only fish together on a Friday afternoon/night after work. The overall winner gets a case of Magners and the loser gets to share it. As for the river that`s the river Kelvin in Glasgow, it has a great population of wild browns and fast becoming a great sea trout, as well as salmon river. I started an album after I joined the forum, but haven`t uploaded for a few weeks, there are some nice photos of my favourite stretches and catches, have a look and let me know what you think.
Peter

[Baz T]

Just checked out the album Peter, Great photo's too - too many nice ones to pic a favourite, but the ice n snow ones are possibly my faves. As I said before, your reports always remind me of my very early teens, fly tying, and trout fishing in the Glazert mainly, but I did try the Kelvin at Kirkintilloch sometimes, and also the burns and small streams in the Kilsyth hills - it was some trek up the "Tak me Doon" road to get to the fishing spots, and I believe the Kelvin starts up in that area in any case. I used to fish a small stream that ran through Kilsyth (though not the town centre part, on the outskirts, perhaps that was the Kelvin too?) and we had a couple of trout to 2/3lb one day when it was in spate, though that was the one and only time we had fish that size out of it. The Kelvin at Kirkie wasnt very productive when I fished it (40 years ago) but looks like a cracking river now..
and..good luck with the competition, looking forward to hearing your report..
Barry