September was very hit and miss for me. the weather kept me off the water when I wasn't at work, so only managed a couple of wee trips.
The autumn colours make for a very pretty landscape, always a beautiful season when the weather behaves
Plenty LDO's hatching though and a few fish to be found rising not many decent ones until later in the month.
The final week of the season has been better, with a bit of water and plenty flies i've found some better fish
Lots of cool stuff appearing too, more signs of the season
And the river looks beautiful.
For a final session, I headed downstream for a day with Mr B. I took my Bradford Bamboo out as tribute to Mr Geirach, John Bradford was a friend and fishing buddy of Johns, so it seemed like a nice tangible association. I think John would have approved of what turned out to be a pretty special session. Dries to start with as there was a really good LDO hatch on all day. Brownies and Finnock were most obliging. Many of the rising fish proved to be fresh finnock
Some nice browns too to finish off the season
Nymphing one of the runs proved to be a lot of fun bringing more finnock, browns, a sea trout and my first salmon of the season
So a great way to wrap up what has been a fantastic dryfly season for me
Maybe a couple of salmon sessions will occur, but for 2024 I will be hanging up my 5wt
but loads of great memories to carry through the winter.
