With Tuesday as a day off coinciding with the last day of somewhat stable weather I went on a mission to catch something on a large mayfly pattern.
With the water still murky I first tried the squirmy and that got me a small rudd.
No signs of stocked trout not even on the spots where you are not allowed to fish…

I next tried the section of the stream where the syndicate issues day permits to so non-club
members can fish there also.
Off course it is a big scam as there are hardly any fish in there particularly the advertised trout.

Streamer fishing only caused lost tackle as you could not clearly spot the obstructions in the water. I soon was back on track fishing the dry fly hoping to get one or the other fish that way.
There where some fish rising but they where dace not trout.
I tried the sedge first but they rejected it every time.
A large mayfly pattern was investigated but did not meet the approval of the fish.

My last resort fly which I had never used was a spent mayfly pattern.
That seemed to be the ticket as it immediately was gobbled up by the dace.
In front of me a fish was aggressively rising and I was sure it was a trout.
The brushes in front of me however prevented me from presenting the fly properly.

When the action died down I went out to search for the fish but my due to my clumsy wading the trout spotted me first and bolted off.
During all this dry fly tossing the wind picked up and the skies became darker.

My final spot was in a woody area and by now surface action was almost zero.
I had one go at a rising dace but that soon ended.
As I stood on the bank watching for possible targets near a likely spot I saw another trout scooting away.  It became pretty overcast fast so I called day before the rain came.