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Cold and clearing.....
For the last weeks of our river season, and with water clarity on our side, spotting Trout (and fishing to them) is where its at. This week two friends resolved to fish only to sighted fish (or rises), and only with dry flies...... and they did well!
If it weren't for this darned COVID thing, I would be eking out a few more of these before the season turns. For now I console myself with my books, fly tying and photo sorting when I feel up to it.
A #18 Pheasant Tail on a wide gape hook. I haven't needed much else lately... on both stillwaters and streams.
A favourite stretch of river.... looking fuller than usual for this time of year from all the rain we have had.
Cool evenings and dusty roads, but there are still hatches and rising Trout on the rivers. What a superb time of year!
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Truttablog is a "Trout centric" journal, in which I seek to highlight South Africa as a fly-fishing destination. In particular I write about my home waters of the Kwa-Zulu Natal province, which seem to receive little press. Recent moves by authorities in South Africa, are threatening to close down Trout hatcheries, ban the practice of catch and release, and in other ways see the demise of a species, entirely without good reason.
I hope that in some small way, my writing will amplify the pleasure and importance of fly-fishing for Trout in South Africa, and in so doing will act as a counter weight to this turning wheel.
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A fine picture of what looks to be a young diver of some sort.
June 15, 2015 at 11:08 pm
Yes Walt, I guess you could call it a diver, since that is what they do. Here we call it a “Dabchick”. Many swirls on a lake, that you thought were Trout rising , end up being a cursed Dabchick that surfaces.
June 16, 2015 at 9:18 pm