Opening day at last
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- After one of the wettest winters on record I finally made it out today to start the 2024 season. The fishing was a bit quiet but I did see one fish rise (although I was unable to tempt it to take) and it was great to be back on the river. Casting needs a bit of practice though.
At last ! ...welcome back ...have a good season Chris
Great to have you back Chris. Lovely video and a couple of trout even. Very nice start. Freezing spring in Estonia too. It even snowed today, which as it melts will send the river temps back towards zero. Goodness knows what will happen with our hatches this season.
Yes, you do wonder what effect this will have on the invertebrates. We had a sparse year last season, and I can't see this one being much better, but you never know. Perhaps they will all come at once in a mega hatch.
Enjoy your videos. Welcome back
Great video. This is the most difficult start to a season I can remember up north.
As I said in the video, Geoffrey, it's the latest opening day for me in over 40 years, and we haven't had as bad as you guys up north. Let's hope things improve soon.
Good to see you again Chris. Tight lines!
Greetings from Down Under Chris. Nice to see you back out on the river again. Autumn here now and our rivers flushed with some good rains. The fishing has been quite wonderful this season. I tend to fish the smaller streams now for wild brown trout, can't beat it in my opinion.
Anyhow good luck with the season ahead....
Sounds fantastic, Steve (you can't beat some small stream dry fly imo). The Australian rivers I've seen online look absolutely pristine.
I'll join the throng in saying how good it is to see you back again, Chris.
You may be a bit rusty but looking at the state of the river, it's amazing that you managed to catch a few fish!
Good to be back, Mike. I thought it would never stop bloody raining.
You can always rely on the Yeo at Dunscombe to produce the odd fish. Could be more rain Saturday ☹️
Hello Chris!! awesome as usual. Good to be back. I fished the Taw at TB last week, and unfortunately the only fish i tempted came off!!! grrrr, still first time on the clubs waters. Managed a few from the Teign. Tight lines. Hope to see you soon!
Hi Paul, the Taw can take a while to get going but hopefully things will pick up soon, I think you did well to hook a fish👍
Glad to have you back Chris. 2024 season at last
So nice to see you fidhing for a brand new season😊
like u say one pool gone , but another one created, just finding the bugger. thats why we do it. good to see u back
And now I feel my season has propertly started. Thank Chis. Also agree on the casing, I quite often aware that my approach isnt the one best suited to the conditions but casting is so therapeutic when I get into a groove, incredibly frustrating, when I'm not
I think the older I get, the more I appreciate fishing the way I want to, and not necessarily the best for fish catching. When I was younger, it was all about catch catch catch , but I must have mellowed.
Good to have you back for another season!
Finally! I’ve been constantly reloading your page seeing if you have uploaded, glad you managed to get out. Can’t wait to see what you have planned for the season ahead, hopefully see you up that little Dartmoor stream. Keep the great videos coming!
It's certainly been a long wait this year. I had a day of Grayling fishing booked for the entire winter season and never got out! The bluebells are out in my local wood, and the moorland stream is normally 3 weeks later, I try to time my first visit to see them. Who knows, this year, though, as back to cold and wet next weekend ☹️
Great to see you out at last Chris. I still have not been out because, basically, it's still winter. Was thinking I might give it a go this afternoon, or perhaps tomorrow. It's still bloody freezing, but at least the wind has dropped for now and the river level has dropped! I can't believe how green everything looks down your way - trees with leaves and it's only late April. 😁 Well done getting a few fish anyway!
Cheers, Fred. I hope to see you out soon👍 it really has been an abysmal closed season, and i think we got off lightly. The forecast doesn't look all that good for us this week, but I fear yours is worse! Tight lines if you're brave enough to have a cast.
Which of us don't make the same casting errors at the start of the season Chris? Nice brownie on the nymph though. Looking forward to more offerings. cheers
Cheers, Peter, the only solution is to get out more often and practice, but I'm not sure how well that reasoning will sit with the OH😃
Brilliant good to see you back
over here in ireland the trout season starts on the 1st of march do the river i fish on its the wet fly now as the river is finning down from a heavy flood.............. put great to see fly anglers back out ....tight lines
Well done Chris nice to see you off the mark, had my opening day on the 20th just and never saw a rise even with a few LDO about so put on spiders and had one 1.5 lb brown so was pleased with that , could have gone again today but just too damn cold so waiting to see at least 15 deg.
Hi Mike, when the wind picked up and the sun disappeared, it was like a different day!
Well done on another monster, I must visit your river one day 👍
Scary to see the devastation of the floods! 😦
The power of nature never ceases to amaze. I must have a look further up at the hole in the field because all that gravel must have come from somewhere?
Hello Chris. Great to see you back on the water! Yet to get out myself as monsoon season in Europe, Switzerland and Germany is still in swing😱 Also, good to see you stick to the dry fly. Haven’t seen any hatches yet nor rising fish. Hopefully soon. Tight lines for the new season
Like a lot of anglers I am unashamedly addicted to dry fly, even when I know I shouldn't. I'd be rubbish in a competition.
Catching fish is secondary. Like to use a nymph from time to time, but not the tight line Euro styles! Fly fishing is perfect for the soul; why make it competitive…..saying that, when on Corrib for the Mayfly with the brothers, sadly Dad is no longer around, we used to say a pound for the first fish, and a pound for the biggest. Not a competition, just a bit of fun!
Same for me yesterday. I saw one fish come up, but it wasnt interested in my fly. Got a trip booked for midweek, so hopefully that goes better. Got some new tackle I've been itching to try out.
Better days ahead, I just hope we get a decent May for a change.
So good to see you back on the water Chris, I've only managed to get on the local burn so far, main River is still crazy high, big changes to how the river looks then?
Seems to be a lot of extra gravel and a lot of the pools have shallowed up? Somewhere there must be some field missing 🤔 or other pools that were shallow are now deeper? We shall see 👍 More rain Saturday ☹️
Nice start, Chris, don't worry about wooly casting, mines no better than that all season 😂
We always expect a little too much in the early days. It seemed to be improving on my stream last time, I haven't quite gone full on into euro nymphing yet. The fly line is still on the spool!
My river has also seen some changes, but this time we've 3 pools that didn't exist last year.
Good luck, Dave 👍
Hi Dave, loving the videos mate 👍 I've tried the euro nymphing thing a few times, and there's no doubt it's very effective, but does it have any soul........trader (sorry couldn't resist) 😂
😂 And that's my next video! Fly or not fly? Euro, streamers, indicators etc a good old debate.
Does anyone do old school upstream nymph anymore? Good luck
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I used to fish upstream nymph and watch the leader for takes, but it does seem to have fallen out of favour? Maybe it's linked to eyesight decline or, more likely, just plain laziness on my part😃 I keep promising myself to try some upstream spider fishing but somehow never get around to it? Funny, isn't it how we all get a bit stuck in our own personal rut tactics wise.
All the best for the new season👍
Well done on the 1k, btw😊
I've only seen 1 other utuber who still practices upstream nymph, Oliver Kite style. I've tried indicators, and they're no help whatsoever to me. Just grease up and concentrate on the fly line tip, maybe its easier on a small stream?? But to me it just seems to have been erased from the manual.
From the tackle trades view, I suppose its better if u need a complete new set of kit instead of simply snipping the dry fly off and replacing it with a nymph 😂
Congratulations back to you Dave apparently only about 9% of youtube channels make it to 1000 subs so a metaphorical pat on the back for us👍
I think your probably right about the tackle trade wanting to sell us more kit! I fell for it!
Welcome back Chris. Can you share your GoPro settings?🙏
Yes, of course, it's a hero 10 set to 4k 60 fps and super view. The bit rate is high, and iso min = 100 and max= 800. Erm, what else, stabilisation set to boost. Maybe if I've missed something, let me know.
The main issue i had was the audio. Now i leave the windslayer foam thing on constantly and ser the audio to stereo only or wind off? The automatic wind setting is rubbish, and it ends up constantly searching for the best mic, which just sounds weird to me. Hope this helps. Oh, colour= natural.,
Well done Chris, good to see you back and off the mark with a few beautiful brownies, is that an original Orvis Clearwater? Tight lines
Hi Chris, the clearwater is about six years old. Does that make it original? I'm not sure of the history of the range, I'm afraid. I bought it because my friend secured some fishing on the Exe and I needed a longer heavier rod, he then left the village and I never fished there again! Still, I got a nice rod out of it😃
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 Hi Chris I have a Clearwater 5 weight which is green, I think I bought it about 8 years ago it's a great rod. I now have a new updated Clearwater 4 weight which is also a very nice rod. Enjoying your videos. Tight lines.
Cold? Yet the weatherman has constantly told us this wet spring has been mild.....
They must be looking at the average country wide Carl, I suppose? Our winter was mild, but the spring temps have been below average. Our bees at work are at least 3 weeks behind where they were last year, and last year wasn't all that great.
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 Probably as you are in the south west. I agree it certainly appeared cold, but definitely heard something on BBC claiming everything flowered early but then that could have been late winter. And you know how obsessed BBC are with global warming ....
Its crap weather though. Just pray we have a normal summer.......not drought and not back to constant rain. Not too much to ask??
PS not seen many bees!
A nice little start
May forecast doesn't look good now......keeping the cold and unsettled trend. Dear Lord the weather in this country is shocking.....
Popped out today Carl and pretty much came straight home. River in a shocking state after Friday nights rain!
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 Awful! I've thankfully managed a few fish on dryfly. We seem to have missed the rain you've had, but unseasonably cold. My closest river was dead and like you I was going to go home, but stopped off at another river only 2 miles away.....there I found fish rising despite the cold wind and even in fast water! Only had some streamers with me and caught a couple. Warm for a bit next week before it goes back to unsettled.......hopefully stays nice next weekend.
Where's your enthusiasm gone? A few years ago we would of had all that timber out in no time.
Yes, but only because we had a manic with a chainsaw and a telehandler. New years Day was a particular highlight, I recall 😂
Good to see you back out on the river, can't wait to get up there for a day with you later in the summer.