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You say that. But as it happens, Jimmy was catching with a CDC shuttlecock...
You say that. But as it happens, Jimmy was catching with a CDC shuttlecock...
Is amazing the number of times I see trout rise to feathers, particularly white/lighter coloured ones! Maybe the time for the white baby doll again!You say that. But as it happens, Jimmy was catching with a CDC shuttlecock...
These were grey - and it had eaten a dose of them.Is amazing the number of times I see trout rise to feathers, particularly white/lighter coloured ones! Maybe the time for the white baby doll again!
You know me Col....always a firm believer in matching the hatch..?You say that. But as it happens, Jimmy was catching with a CDC shuttlecock...
As is the grey goose!These were grey - and it had eaten a dose of them.
Was that your nymph in the photo, was it? The thing is, the feathers were floating, static, on the surface, as was Jimmy's CDC.As is the grey goose!
Is a cut and pasted web photo of a Sawyers grey goose nymph, as well you know.Was that your nymph in the photo, was it? The thing is, the feathers were floating, static, on the surface, as was Jimmy's CDC.
I didn't know that was a Sawyer's grey goose nymph. No aggression from me. I didn't see the connection between floating feathers and floating CDCs on the one hand and a nymph on the other hand.Is a cut and pasted web photo of a Sawyers grey goose nymph, as well you know.
Why the aggression about a follow up to trout eating grey geese feathers?
Yer MawI didn't know that was a Sawyer's grey goose nymph. No aggression from me. I didn't see the connection between floating feathers and floating CDCs on the one hand and a nymph on the other hand.
Gee, thanks! Yours too!Yer Maw
These breed on one of the streams I nest, think they eat trout too??Our club water yesterday...
Big skeins of geese flying north for the summer...
Osprey hunting alongside us...
And a red-breasted merganser...
Weird looking thing. Every day's a bad hair day! ?
He seemed content to be looking for minnows around the margins...
Dunno if you can use those black and white barred feathers instead of teal?
I'm sure they are an equal menace on rivers to goosanders. However, on our loch, the trout are mostly going to be too big for them. (Cormorants are our big problem! ) We have a population of minnows, though, and I am sure that is what that guy is after. If it's keeping him away from the trout and salmon parr in the nearby rivers, he is welcome to be where he is.These breed on one of the streams I nest, think they eat trout too??
Our beck is black over with minnows in Summer, so hopefully they feed on those, we have a lot of cormorants locally, being near the coast, but the rivers are fairly densely tree lined and the cormorant's apparently don't like trees above them, so we don't get too many. They seem to target the coarse fish in the local lakes.I'm sure they are an equal menace on rivers to goosanders. However, on our loch, the trout are mostly going to be too big for them. (Cormorants are our big problem! ) We have a population of minnows, though, and I am sure that is what that guy is after. If it's keeping him away from the trout and salmon parr in the nearby rivers, he is welcome to be where he is.
I've got an interesting observation about cormorants from the last week or so, but it's worth putting in its own thread, so I will do that...Our beck is black over with minnows in Summer, so hopefully they feed on those, we have a lot of cormorants locally, being near the coast, but the rivers are fairly densely tree lined and the cormorant's apparently don't like trees above them, so we don't get too many. They seem to target the coarse fish in the local lakes.
Ospreys and Marsh Harriers last week at the GoldenlochSo here's an opening question to get the ball rolling on our latest forum for all you birdwatchers and twitchers out there.
For many of us including me, being out in the countryside is a big reason why I go fishing and I enjoy keeping an eye out for the local wildlife and birds are probably the most often seen.
So what are your regular sightings and also the rarer or less common birds you have seen while out fishing recently or in the past?
For me a recent trip down to Woodington Lakes in Hampshire gave up a splendid view of a sparrowhawk flying low and slow along the treeline - always a favourite.