Devon has 'enjoyed' copious amounts of rain in the last couple of weeks, keeping the rivers very full and giving ideal water for migratory fish to run. David Pilkington took advantage of this water to try for a daytime sea trout on the Lyd. He was surprised (and delighted!) to catch a very fresh 28 inch cock salmon in Silver Doctor pool, when he was really supposed to be picking wild garlic for the chefs.
Inspired, David took Richard Archer down to Bottom beat in the afternoon, where Richard very kindly snapped this picture of our first sea trout of the season, as you can see a sparkling fresh hen fish of 18 inches. The salmon and the sea trout both took the same fly, a size 6 Black Tadpole, fished on a sink-tip. Another sea trout was seen to jump twice in Stoat's tail pool.
Swarms of black gnats are mating over the stickles, we saw 3 mayflies on the Lyd, it really is time to go fishing.
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