Meanwhile I've got back to my primary interest and have been doing a lot more trout fishing, most recently on the Kennet in the middle of the (late) mayfly hatch. Its a pleasant environment and much effort has been put into improving the water habitat. Comprising lots of feeder streams it's a little hard to gauge where you can and can't fish initially, but it didn't take too long to get to know the place. Stocking is mainly browns of about 1.5lbs as far as I could see, plus a few rainbows. There were also some roach feeding on the mayfly (of which I caught two), and I also noted a number of large, black, bream sculling about in the smaller pieces of water.
It was a foul day but we got a few hours dry weather in the morning, following by persistent showers for the rest of the day. I only had one mayfly on me (a green drake), which they didn't seem to be confident with, lots of missed splashes and fish turning away. They were not very interested in the Mayfly nymph either and I'd had one pluck on a pheasants tail. The mayfly hatch started to come on better after lunch and after about five hours with no fish but plenty rising, I caught my Mayfly in a tree. In retrieving it, I found another one up there which I was also able to rescue. I put it on and immediately caught the fish that had been refusing everything else - it was child's play. So I finished with three brown trout and a rainbow to 2lbs, plus a couple of roach. The mayfly I found was actually a wet french partridge mayfly, designed to be pulled through lochs, but I got it to float with liberal dosings of Gink.
A good fun day all in all if very wet, I'm not sure if I enjoyed it more than a good day on a loch, especially with sea trout, but I'll probably go again. The Test is next on the list, perhaps later in the season.
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