.......Fishing the Ver - 19/20.04.11

The picture on the left is where my Grandfather Bert tickled trout in the River Ver and Fi and I saw rising fish at the weekend. But having stayed there for an hour early evening I reckon that I put a fish down after two rises and that was that! Left the car at the Chequers Car Park and walked back there over the field against a backdrop of a beautiful sunset.

The following day today I met up with Wes who drove over and we went and fished at Redbournbury. I let Wes have the stream exclusively as I felt it was home territory it would have been a bit mean.

Wes caught three brownies and was absolutely delighted as I sat back so to speak. He caught his on a small black tungsten nymph - the fish were being spooked by the goldhead nymphs apparently. So I waited for the evening to arrive and took Sebastian down to ***** where we waited for nearly an hour for the sun to go down and the last 4x4 to go through thr Ford and that sort of thing! No wind and a sultry 18.0C. His third cast hit the mark so to speak and a wild brownie took the Murray Bluebottle (a swap fly I had previously tied on a #18 hook) confidently. I was very proud of his accurate cast to the fish and proud that he had managed the task well and enjoyed it.

And that is exactly a year ago to the day that I last caught a wild brownie from the Ver on the same stretch of river - uncanny!