After a successful first session of the year on Jan. 8^th. I hoped for another good
session a week later but alas conditions where against me.
Heavy rains had turned the stream in to a chocolate colored mess and my
best was not good enough to produce any fish.

With more bad weather and a case of the flu it was only last weekend that I
finally could get out and about again.
I went straight for one of my honey holes where the squirmy yielded some
small dace and roach.

The rainbows from the first session of the year had obviously moved on although
Managed a small brown trout that was hitting my indicator all the time.
I had a short tussle with a larger brown trout but the fish was not properly hooked.

In search for the rainbow I tried some pools downstream and got one bite from
one fish that was located under some tree roots.
I fought the fish for a while but the hook came out so no joy.
Only the small shiners seemed to cooperate.

There had been some talk from one of the syndicate members that he had seen
a lot of large fish upstream.
Not a reliable source but I opted to check it out anyway.
Before leaving I tried to catch that trout that I had missed earlier.

The first hit was from a dace which missed the squirmy but I noticed that the
brown trout had also come out of hiding.
The squirmy drifted near the brown trout and it just could not resist to hit
the fly, this time I managed to land the fish.
The upstream section did not yield the fabled big fish.
Not surprising since the source was known to be all talk…

Along the way I ran into my buddies and talked some shop with them.
It was late in the afternoon and I was ready for the pub.
My friends still wanted to fish a little so I pointed them to the rainbows.
At the end of the day I met up with them a the pub and on of them
had indeed caught a rainbow trout.