my wye
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:52 pm
Yes. It is my wye in case you didn't know. I've fished the wye since the age of 6, so 21 years, and I still find it exciting, challenging and rewarding to fish. Each year it gets better and better, and it could continue improving despite being raped in the summer by quick set-up canoe hire companies. One of my wishes in life is to see the wye as, once again, being the premier salmon river in England, and after seeing the amount of silver tourists I have this year it is well on its way. It's taken me 21 years to fish the few bit I have, but I'm always spoilt for choice when starting the car for a days fishing. I bailiff a stretch that I love, but sadly it is getting too well known. The wye has given me chub to 6lb 6oz, barbel to over 11lb, trout of 2lb, grayling of over 2lb, amazing specimen dace. I don't really pike fish, but have seen pike the size of crocodiles within its depths. The barbel are stunning. Lean, fit fighting machines...not like the over weight, pudgy royalty fish (!). The wye fish have no excess weight. The thing I am longing for is exploring the upper reaches next summer. There are miles of natural, untouched water just waiting for me to fish...
I started fishing pin on the wye three years ago, and found it challengeing due to the length of cast you need to achieve in alot of situations. So I made the decision that if it limited my angling, I wouldn't use it. After a year of birds nests, snap offs and swearing I can now cast pretty Damn near where ever I need to with a wallis cast. From using pins came my love of split cane rods and trad methods..... And here a am. St
I started fishing pin on the wye three years ago, and found it challengeing due to the length of cast you need to achieve in alot of situations. So I made the decision that if it limited my angling, I wouldn't use it. After a year of birds nests, snap offs and swearing I can now cast pretty Damn near where ever I need to with a wallis cast. From using pins came my love of split cane rods and trad methods..... And here a am. St