More local stuff, but both vans back on the road at last.
Walking and watching the river for mullet most days, lots being learnt about their habits and movements, but they're infuriating fish and sometimes disappear for days, for no apparant reason. I doubt they're absolutely "knowable".
I did have one the other day in very fast water, drifting the flies only a couple of rod lengths out, watching dozens of fish twisting and flashing and willing one of them to take.
In the fast water it was almost impossible to get in, so I walked it down to a big pool full of slack water, where it eventually succumbed. Best fight this year without doubt.
I finished off catching two sand smelt, a first for me on this river. On the fly too.
A couple of days later, I had several bass, one not a bad fish which gave a good account of itself, after slamming into the fly with ferocity.
Another mullet bit the dust too, this one took revenge of me by thrashing about in the mud whilst being unhooked, covering me from head to toe in it. A small price to pay.
To finish off, I saw a great black backed gull seize a gosling the size of a grapefruit ( well,they're both yellow and round) and wolf it down in one go, which resulted in it having a bulging neck, much like a python eating a pig.
Absolutely savage.
Gulls. Bastard thinghs
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