Post by phil on Sept 28, 2013 17:06:41 GMT
The River Wharfe, Addingham Angling Club waters.
A new video filmed on Friday 27th September 2013.
A glorious day of sunny weather with various up-wing hatches, terrestrials, and stoneflies all evident. The trout were rising, the river was clear and low.
Filmed on a GoPro Hero 2 and uploaded as HD 720. Apologies for the misty image quality toward the end. The sunshine must have caused some minute residual moisture in the waterproof case that condensed on the inside of the case.
When the video moves on to the place at which I begin inducing takes and catching fish I am balanced precariously on a underwater and very uneven rock promontory. Directly in front of me is a deep channel, 20' perhaps, where the fish could be seen to quite some depth holding on the far side of the underwater rock wall.
I found it fascinating to watch the fish rise to the fly: black thread body, red cock palmered hackle, very fine copper wire rib, red silk loop eye. A nod to the palmered flies of the professional fishermen from the Kurobe region of Japan. This one fly brought to hand a total of five super brown trout, a couple just above a lb, all in superb condition and released quickly. As you can see I missed fair few takes too.
The fish would track the fly underwater as it drifted on the surface, then as it came downstream a slight hold would bring the fly subsurface and induce the trout to keep pace just to the side or just behind the fly. With slow pulls and lifts the trout would move and mouth the fly but then let go just as I lifted. At other times, with quite a strong pull upstream bring the fly to the surface the trout would rush in to take, those takes represented the ones that brought most of the fish to hand.
I felt privileged to spend almost 40 minutes engaged in a game of tag with these beautiful creatures as they rose and dipped to the play of the fly. At times one fish would entertain the fly for what seemed an age, perhaps 30 seconds in reality, but for a moment it felt like time out of time.
Unfortunately, as I wear a prosthetic leg, the fatique of balancing in my precarious position eventually took its toll, hence the need to abandon my position for the final but best fish of the day to bring it into calmer water.
Hope you enjoy, would love to get your feedback.
cheers
Phil
www.tenkaradays.com/video/
A new video filmed on Friday 27th September 2013.
A glorious day of sunny weather with various up-wing hatches, terrestrials, and stoneflies all evident. The trout were rising, the river was clear and low.
Filmed on a GoPro Hero 2 and uploaded as HD 720. Apologies for the misty image quality toward the end. The sunshine must have caused some minute residual moisture in the waterproof case that condensed on the inside of the case.
When the video moves on to the place at which I begin inducing takes and catching fish I am balanced precariously on a underwater and very uneven rock promontory. Directly in front of me is a deep channel, 20' perhaps, where the fish could be seen to quite some depth holding on the far side of the underwater rock wall.
I found it fascinating to watch the fish rise to the fly: black thread body, red cock palmered hackle, very fine copper wire rib, red silk loop eye. A nod to the palmered flies of the professional fishermen from the Kurobe region of Japan. This one fly brought to hand a total of five super brown trout, a couple just above a lb, all in superb condition and released quickly. As you can see I missed fair few takes too.
The fish would track the fly underwater as it drifted on the surface, then as it came downstream a slight hold would bring the fly subsurface and induce the trout to keep pace just to the side or just behind the fly. With slow pulls and lifts the trout would move and mouth the fly but then let go just as I lifted. At other times, with quite a strong pull upstream bring the fly to the surface the trout would rush in to take, those takes represented the ones that brought most of the fish to hand.
I felt privileged to spend almost 40 minutes engaged in a game of tag with these beautiful creatures as they rose and dipped to the play of the fly. At times one fish would entertain the fly for what seemed an age, perhaps 30 seconds in reality, but for a moment it felt like time out of time.
Unfortunately, as I wear a prosthetic leg, the fatique of balancing in my precarious position eventually took its toll, hence the need to abandon my position for the final but best fish of the day to bring it into calmer water.
Hope you enjoy, would love to get your feedback.
cheers
Phil
www.tenkaradays.com/video/
