First off a big thinks to Tony & Sue for their organisation and Vidar for inviting me along. I had a great day out in the pouring rain. It was good to meet so many of you yesterday even though I don't frequent this forum that often, it was a pleasure to talk to those who I did meet.
I'm not that much of an angler to be honest so an invite to an AN fish-in by Vidar had me wondering how I would cope as I've only been fishing for 18 months or so, mostly alongside Vidar on the odd day out. Usually he whips me hands down on either species or size and the day started that way with Vidar hooking a Greyling on his 1st cast. However the tables turned after an hour of catching trout for me on the upper part of the fast carrier when I saw, hooked and landed this beauty. Gave me the run around for 5 mins or so and I just got it to the net as Vidar wandered over to see what was causing me so much hastle.
After that I had several rainbows, several salmon par, a baby grayling all of 8" long and a number of brown trout all from various stretches of the upper fast carrier. I also plucked out a lovely rainbow from below the weir where it runs under the footbridge and into the main river. I reckon it was probably the same fish (or similar) to Tincatinca's above. All in all about a dozen sizeable fish and a few tiddlers. I'm still in shock, as I said earlier, I don't usually catch much and was expecting the odd fish at most.
Thanks again, I had a superb day out and the soup and bacon roll was most most welcome at the end of the day.
