A day out with Steve Greig, over from California for a visit. The mayfly have started – we managed to tune-in on some mayfly feeders behind Inch Talla – though the one we spooned had more shucks than anything – no duns in him, and just a single nymph. Meanwhile, the open water buzzer-feeders are…
Photos from our stop-over days on Eye, en route to Orkney.
A day with Jimmy, hunting fish out in the middle on dries. Amazing number of last year’s fish feeding on early season buzzers.
These 2 albums consists of selected photos of rainbow trout to help identify fish that are relatively recently stocked, and those that have been in the water for several months and/or over the winter period. This album features RESIDENTS AND OVERWINTERED fish. Identifying features include:
Sharp, pointed edges to fins, particularly the tail and pectoral fins. (The dorsal is nearly always rounded to some extent in both stockies and resident rainbows.)
Slim body condition (in a Rusky fish)
Scales in good condition with no patches of displacement (this can happen during play/landing, or be the result of a cormorant encounter, but tends to be a line in both cases)
No scuffing or reddening on the front edge of the mouth
