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22 November

Chris Plumb

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River Frome - Wool

 

0800 - 1630

 

Very mild (14ºC), overcast and quite breezy with the very occasional drizzly flurry. NOT at all what was forecast - which was pretty much rain all day! River quite pacey (0.97m at East Stoke river gauge) and carrying a bit more colour than I'd have liked.

 

14 Grayling; 8 over 1lb (6over 1½lb). Best 3; 1lb14oz, 2lb0oz, 2lb1oz. 2 Dace; best 10oz. 1 Roach; 9oz. 9 Brownies to 2¼lb. 3 Salmon parr.

 

A trip that we nearly aborted at the last minute due to an increasingly dismal forecast but because little rain had fallen in the run up to the trip we decided to chance it. As it turned out the river was in a slightly worse state than we expected while the weather was way better - in fact we got the weather that had been forecast on the Wednesday when I bought Paul's guest ticket!

 

As ever though the Frome makes you work hard for your fish - and Paul and I caught slowly and steadily throughout the day. I had way too many trout - many of them doing a good impression of a big grayling in the fast current - so I was repeatedly disappointed to see a spotty flank when I got a fish on the surface. I'd heard of some nice dace showing - and they were very much a secondary target after the grayling.

 

A first for me was one of my grayling (a fish of 1-10) sicking up a half digested bullhead in the net! First time I've ever seen evidence that they predate on smaller fish (and this bullhead wasn't a whole lot smaller than its mouth)!

 

Apart from the brownies I think Paul had a near identical return - a dozen grayling to 2lb 1oz (not the same fish as mine!) and a brace of 10oz dace.

 

As ever grayling will simply refuse to pose for a photo - my 2-01 in mid flick!

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My other 2 behaved itself just long enough for Paul to get a shot off!

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Cut off Oxbow. Last year this was bank - from the grasses in the bottom left corner - out to the island - last winter's floods have created a short cut!

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Compare with this picture taken last December - where I'm standing is now the middle of the river!

 

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Chris Plumb

Quite fascinated me too - even carried it up to where Paul was fishing to show him - was really quite digested but looked to be a bullhead from the overall shape.

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Rusty

Is that near the upper limit Chris? From what I remember of my visit the water table was quite high in that section, still a massive change for the river though.

 

Great pics as ever Paul, the colours in the trophy shot are particularly nice.

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Chris Plumb

Yes Chris - first big bend on the top field - only there's no bend now. And trophy shot show that we actually had some late afternoon sun - at a time when the rain was forecast to be at its heaviest!

 

C.

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Paulg

Cheers Rusty, I liked the colours as well, and I tried very hard to get the standard Plumb plastic bag out of shot!!

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