Richard Tong 🎣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Three typical trout from my Wharfe club water this afternoon. They tend to average 1-4 to 1-6 in my experience, with every chance of a 2lb fish. On the menu today were large brook duns with a few olive uprights also in the offing.

@newljohn A Paul Procter pattern John- a Shuttle Gnat, though I reckon it would’ve taken many flies as long as the delivery was okay

@RichardTong3 What a slab of a brownie, Richard! What was your winning fly ?

Slow day yesterday-2 small ones were all I had to show for a lot of walking until I happened upon this trout. I thought it may go 2lbs….turned out much larger!

@CleanIlkley @EnvAgency I guess The Dirty Business may have raised public awareness but they’re not really cleaning up their act! Scandalous- cheaper to pollute and get a paltry fine rather than invest in better infrastructure

Todays sewage report. 299 dumping sewage right now. 771 in the last 24 hours. No rain across England, just Water Companies potentially illegally dumping sewage. The @EnvAgency should be investigating every one of these operating right now. sewagemap.co.uk

@semperfli have to be congratulated for hosting such a fulfilling and informative day at Selby Abbey. Great choice of materials, some excellent tyers and 3 very good talks by Hans van Klinken, Feargal Sharkey and Beneath British Waters

Had to order some extra long studs for my new @orvisstockbridge PRO LT Wading Boots due to the tread depth. The usual 1100 model studs just aren’t long enough. The 3000A are just right @orvisflyfishing

@750GMU Anathema to you as it didn’t have its egg sac still visible! 🤣

@RichardTong3 Cracking troot!

Quiet day on the river was saved just after 5pm when I found this handsome trout rising regularly. It took my black Klinkhamer but didn’t have a lot of places to run to in the confines of its pool. At 2-14 it was close to the magic 3lb mark, but was a great end to a tough day!

Great weekend as guests of @jolouhg and @johnglynn35 for @kathleentong1 and myself in Bakewell. Lots of laughs, food eaten and a bit of alcohol drunk! The Derbyshire Wye was down on its knees and the fishing wasn’t great but we had our strings pulled a few times!

Two trout from an otherwise very tough day with only small stuff on the fin and nowt of any note hatching. Generally the big trout were safe in their hidey holes. These two were the only ones of note that I saw rising.

I love fishing terrestrial imitations and last year I fished ants for the first time on a trip to Bosnia. However, clock the size of these beasts in the Black Forest….if only we had ‘em like this in UK!!

@uwhg Excellent! Chuffed for you!

@RichardTong3 You pointing out that a foam beetle did the trick was so helpful yesterday - I followed your example 😉🙏🏼

This belter latched straight onto the foam beetle as soon as it heard the ‘plop’…..changed direction and snaffled it immediately

@stuartminnikin I know Stu, Twitter ain’t what it was; shame but Elon has buggered it a bit!

@RichardTong3 Sorry, I missed this Rich - I don't come here often anymore. I've not measured it yet and I'm away from home until next week (back in Bulgaria). Remind me if I don't come back to you.

A hatch of olives around teatime brought out some of the bigger trout to feed in the ultra-low water. This one was feeding tight to trailing willow leaves and took a Hackled CDC Dun: #Hackled_CDC_Dun" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">yorkshire-dales-flyfishing.com/dry_flies.htm#…

@StuBamforth 🤣🤣

@RichardTong3 Insert I wish my wife this dirty gag here!

The amount of splattered flies this year is unreal. Car not washed for 4 wks, but probably represents 5 x 120 miles round trips to the river. Not seen the likes of this for years! Bring on the terrestrial feeders though there’s quite a number of upwings in this slaughter too!

One from a tiny shaded pool in a shrunken river on an APT, involving shuffling, crawling and cut knees on dry exposed lichen. Well worth it for the fireworks that ensued! Our trout are in spanking condition this season!

This fella was patrolling down the pool in bright sun and I took my eye off my fly to watch its progress, resulting in me losing sight of the fly. With some relief I tightened on the 3rd rise which I thought was possibly to my fly- it was! Lady Luck playing her part!

An aphid feeding foam beetle victim. Burger gratefully accepted alongside the fries!