Wrong tactics on the river Taw
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- It's all too easy to turn up at the river with a pre concived plan as to your approach and then be a bit lazy when it comes to changing tactics. Here is a classic case of me doing exactly this even though I talk through in the video what I think I should be doing and then completely ignore my own advice. I really should have known better.
Well done. Its refreshing to see honest video up where anglers admit they struggled, wrong tactic or even blanked. Theres far too much ego on social media these days.
I think you just have to show it as it is Carl don't you. I could easily chop the video up to make myself look good but I think people would tell it was fake and you'd soon get caught out. Anything happening up your way?
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 It's very poor on my local river. One tiddler the other day upstream nymph and a tiny seatrout smolt this afternoon while messing about with streamers! The river has dropped but for some reason it's still fairly coloured. Saw a mayfly today so going to leave it couple weeks until fish on them. I'm convinced there's less fish every season.
I'm going to mainly fish the Dee and mountain lakes for trout this season and get into bass fishing again. Kind of losing the interest for my local small rivers.......I keep looking at the giant wild trout coming out regularly from South Wales rivers and I'm mad with envy!
Yeah there's some real lunkers in those South Wales rivers, not sure why?? I've just seen more rain coming next week to f#ck the rivers up AGAIN.
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 I don't know why either. Some North Wales rivers do run through fertile land, but catching a trout of 2 pound would be rare, let alone a 4 pound one. But a lot of the trout do run to the sea to get big.
Similar to your neck of the woods? In that sense I have caught 4 pound trout, but seatrout. But I prefer the stay at home trouts .....
Just get out whenever you can over the next week with high pressure in charge.........I will be heading to fish mountain lakes when the shit weather returns.
That is a fabulous looking river ! 😊😊😊😊
Very nice vid as ever, Chris. I'm sure your day will come soon! And those moorland brownies won't be as sulky as these sulky lowland ones!
After weeks of dredging up the odd fish with streamers and even squirmy wormy (!!!!! Don't tell the Houghton club🤣),
I finally broke the anti-topwater curse at the end of April, with several quality fish captured after casting to rises, using light nymphs, spiders and dries.
On the last session I noted several upwinged species, dominated by olives and large brook duns, so insect life is good on at least one river. Rises are still a bit sporadic, but it's improved as the levels settled, no doubt.
I couldn't help laughing about the utube analytics thing!
It's better not to look! Ive got mine to about 28% average retention.
For ages it was about 23%, folks generally have a very poor attention span. Like me, you have a valued core of followers, and It's about pride in the job and keeping them entertained at the end of the day unless you need a living from it. ❤
I totally understand if people are looking to make money from their videos then they need to do everything they can to get subs etc. I'm just as bad for flicking through content on youtube ( except yours Dave of course 😃😃).
Of course old boy 😂@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724
I have to say great videos very informative and relaxing reminds me of fishing the Alyn in North Wales keep up the good work🎣🎣🎣👍
Great to see fish handled carefully.👍😃
Well done Chris great to see you back mate …season is closed here …so the winter doldrums have set in …😂
Let's hope your doldrums are a bit shorter than ours this winter👍
I never sub or like the video when people beg for it early in a video.
It's so annoying!
This video was very pleasant and I will certainly hit the like!
I'm car camping by a river in Scotland with my bonkers Doberman so am limited with time myself 😂I did get and hour fly fishing earlier and only had one bit of action, but it spat the fly. 🙄.
Cheers 👍
I've just been out on Dartmoor and had a number of fish spit the fly out. Sometimes they just don't take it very well or more likely I'm just too slow. Cheers.
Glad to be a 25%'er. Nice save at the finish to save a blank.
Cheers Chris, never pays to stick blindly to one method but I still keep doing it!
It will be interesting to see if people watch more of this video just to prove me wrong 😃 25% er, like it👍
I'm grateful that I found your channel (through wildfisher, I think). I enjoy the peaceful feeling, the natural sounds, the attention to the flora and fauna around you, and maybe most of all the good-natured humor and humility found in your videos. I watch other youtube accounts to get tying tips, learn new techniques, etc. I watch your videos to feel like I'm there. Thanks.
Thanks very much for the kind comment, I'm definitely not looking to teach anyone how to fish, more how to enjoy it.
Let's hope the Wildfisher gets back on youtube soon, I know the weather up there has been a lot worse than ours.
Hi Chris, got to agree with @carlhughes9584. The scenery with the birds singing is great in itself, good fishing or not. I actually fell in the river last week whilst recording! Thought I would keep it in, totally soaked within 5 minutes but planned keeping it on the video to the show the perils of Fly Fishing, I hadn't put my memory card in so that plan was out! Good start to the season up here but strangely not many Brown Trout, mostly Salmon Smolts. Hear's to a good season
Hi Davie, I had a near miss yesterday on some slimy rocks but wasn't recording at the time. I'm not sure if I'd leave it the video or not? If my wife knew of half the "incidents" that happen in this gentle art of fly fishing she'd have a fit.
No worries Chris. As long as you enjoyed the time on the stream mate. Sounded like you did. I find myself doing the same thing. Hope the DYI went well. Cheers from PA USA!
Cheers Kevin, DIY completed so this weekend is my own ( until it arrives of course and something is found that has to be done)🤔
It all looks so lovely with the green coming on the trees and the recent change in the weather has to give us all hope. Another great video and congratulations on the 1000 subscribers, it is great to be able to turn off the mid-roll adverts though RUclips keep changing where the setting is and how you use it in a bid to subvert our attempts to keep their ads out of the middle of fishing videos :-)
Thanks for that, I'll have to keep an eye out for their subterfuge.
Have you managed any trout fishing yet?
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 Just one day Chris - I managed some fishing on Lewis but it was just so cold that it seemed pointless going to trout so I had a few days chasing a spring salmon. However, I just couldn't ignore the trout totally and so had a day out. It wasn't exactly successful but I did catch a trout and get a good walk so that is a win. Hopefully there'll be a video of the day soon but I'm in bed with covid - there seems to be a lot of it about just now and although we were told it would become just like a cold this current version seems pretty nasty.
Sorry to hear that caorach , I hope you recover soon and get back out on those fantastic lochs. All the best👍
Chris
We have had ideal weather and water conditions here in Maryland this spring. That’s the good news. The bad news is I have not been able to find time to get out to fish for trout once this spring.
People used to tell I should "make time" to get things finished at work. I always replied if I could "make time" I wouldn't be working here! All anglers should get special leave to go fishing on health grounds imo.
Hi Chris… Thanks loads as per normal. Lovely to see the Taw. Your videos are so so enjoyable to watch.
won’t be there until mid June now as we on our tour.
Managed to fish the River Dee (Bala Wales) caught one brown and four (sadly not in season) grayling- all on dry. Lovely.
Sounds great Paul, how lovely to be "on tour" and getting some fishing in. Maybe one day. Let me know when your back and we'll sort something out👍
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 thatll be great. Will let you know
Well done Chris first of many I'm sure! A bit of warmth now at last and I've still not been out! Too busy with other stuff right now. 😊
We're all waiting Fred, I feel like I haven't been "down the local" in ages👍
Thanks❤
Hi Chris, another nice video and good that you were spared a blank, I was lucky enough to get out for couple of hours on Sun and Mon but no flies and no fish despite trying everything on the Sun and just prospecting with dries Mon but it was nice to be on the river.
It's been a tough start Mike, we're finally getting a bit of warmth this week which will hopefully get things going👍
I get that. I'm a lazy sod, and will stubbornly fish the same fly all day while everybody around me is catching on another. I only change my fly when a tree eats it.
The worst part is I actually told myself what to do and still couldn't be bothered.
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 That's the spirit!
What an exquisite little river!
Watched to the end;)) I would have got so stuck in those trees!!!!
Hi Chris, another lovely video, watched to the end! 😂 I fear many people want to see fish, fish and more fish. I watch to learn about other people’s tactics, flies they use, that sort of thing. Is that a Wychwood R&S 7’6” #3? I have the same one and love it. How do you find that reel-I’ve often looked at it but never been sure.
Hi Robert, you are absolutely correct re the rod (what a shame they don't make it anymore) I also love it👍 Not sure about the reel, I went for it because its light and just a basic click pawl ( the drag on my other reel keeps moving on its own) but you can't adjust the tension on the drag? Turning the dial like you would on an old rimfly for instance has a very limited effect. The original river and stream reel was over £100 and I payed half that for this new model so perhaps the old adage is correct.
i would have thought a lot of the underwater life has been washed away this last few months. im interested to see if we do get much surface activity this year. thanks for sharing again.
Gary and I were discussing exactly that Paul, the problem is recent seasons have seen a steady decline so how do you quantify it? I have tried to study the riverfly results for our streams but the data is a bit impenetrable for me.
25% r. Lovely stream. That sighter was lovely and bright, could you please tell me what kind of material it is.
Yes of course, it's utc ultra thread, 140 denier in fl. Fire orange. I weave it into my homemade furled leaders for upstream nymph and wet fly, shows up really well.
A nice few hours
Can you show link to get the river level graph as last time I was going to fish Yeo near Crediton it rained for 4 days , the river flooded and was unfishable.
Yes, of course Terry, here's the one I use
riverlevels.uk/river-yeo-crediton-hamlets-yeoford#google_vignette
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