The River Towy in April is a wonderful place. The season has finally arrived,
Winter will be increasingly loosening its grip on the valley and the early signs of spring are beginning to stake their claim.
This year in particular is even more welcomed after such a long harsh winter, all the more reason to wrap up and venture out for the opportunity of an early bar of pristine hard - fighting silver.
April can be the most rewarding month on the Towy, it is also the most foreboding.
Don’t expect your chosen beat to be brimming with fish eagerly waiting to intercept your fly, this is not the case. However fish will already be in the river and each day we hope that more and more sea trout will continue to enter the system.
Many a night I have spent on the Towy in April questioning my desire, my skill and often my sanity, April can be a lonely, desolate place on the river and the thought of a warm bed just waiting for you at home can certainly diminish your confidence and ambition.
Through all this you must hang on to that one hope that seems buried in the deepest part of your mind, the hope that just one take could turn the most desperate night into the complete opposite and one you'll always remember.
April sea trout are quite simply breathtaking, the ultimate prize.
Hook a fish in April and expect the fight to be long and hard. April fish are as fresh and as fit as they come, magnificent specimens of acrobatic, heart - pounding, muscle - packed silver, fresh from the sea where they have been feeding and piling on the weight for the arduous journey ahead and the many dangers along the way.
April fish are truly something to behold and to catch one won’t be easy!
But anything that offers such great reward should in turn be the most difficult to attain.
April 30th 2010
The sole factor in catching fish this time of year is persistence, it pays to put your shift in and stay out as late as you can. I’m not saying fish like mad all night long but break the night up into 3 or 4 smaller sessions and fish each one with a rest in between for a coffee and a sit down. I love to sit by the river and just listen. Any sign of a fish can give you a confidence boost and its back in for another go.
This early on in the season you really are fishing for one take at a time and you never know what time of night its going to come.
You can’t rely on the fish being in front of you, you have to search for them and more importantly you have to wait for them.
You can be fishing for the first few hours and there are no signs of fish but trust me if you want to give yourself the best opportunity of catching one of these superb fresh run sea tout then fishing on during the later hours of the night can pay dividends.
That’s exactly how it happened for me on Friday when at 3am on the button – the take I had been waiting for resulted in the most welcomed capture of this 5 pound bar of April Silver.
The first part of the night had been a quiet affair however by staying out longer I gave my self a greater chance of some fish coming into the area I was fishing and that’s exactly what happened, just after two in the morning I had heard a few fish coming through the pool I had been sat on, and where I had not even had so much as an offer earlier I had now been rewarded for my efforts.
Tight Lines
Winter will be increasingly loosening its grip on the valley and the early signs of spring are beginning to stake their claim.
This year in particular is even more welcomed after such a long harsh winter, all the more reason to wrap up and venture out for the opportunity of an early bar of pristine hard - fighting silver.
April can be the most rewarding month on the Towy, it is also the most foreboding.
Don’t expect your chosen beat to be brimming with fish eagerly waiting to intercept your fly, this is not the case. However fish will already be in the river and each day we hope that more and more sea trout will continue to enter the system.
Many a night I have spent on the Towy in April questioning my desire, my skill and often my sanity, April can be a lonely, desolate place on the river and the thought of a warm bed just waiting for you at home can certainly diminish your confidence and ambition.
Through all this you must hang on to that one hope that seems buried in the deepest part of your mind, the hope that just one take could turn the most desperate night into the complete opposite and one you'll always remember.
April sea trout are quite simply breathtaking, the ultimate prize.
Hook a fish in April and expect the fight to be long and hard. April fish are as fresh and as fit as they come, magnificent specimens of acrobatic, heart - pounding, muscle - packed silver, fresh from the sea where they have been feeding and piling on the weight for the arduous journey ahead and the many dangers along the way.
April fish are truly something to behold and to catch one won’t be easy!
But anything that offers such great reward should in turn be the most difficult to attain.
April 30th 2010
The sole factor in catching fish this time of year is persistence, it pays to put your shift in and stay out as late as you can. I’m not saying fish like mad all night long but break the night up into 3 or 4 smaller sessions and fish each one with a rest in between for a coffee and a sit down. I love to sit by the river and just listen. Any sign of a fish can give you a confidence boost and its back in for another go.
This early on in the season you really are fishing for one take at a time and you never know what time of night its going to come.
You can’t rely on the fish being in front of you, you have to search for them and more importantly you have to wait for them.
You can be fishing for the first few hours and there are no signs of fish but trust me if you want to give yourself the best opportunity of catching one of these superb fresh run sea tout then fishing on during the later hours of the night can pay dividends.
That’s exactly how it happened for me on Friday when at 3am on the button – the take I had been waiting for resulted in the most welcomed capture of this 5 pound bar of April Silver.
The first part of the night had been a quiet affair however by staying out longer I gave my self a greater chance of some fish coming into the area I was fishing and that’s exactly what happened, just after two in the morning I had heard a few fish coming through the pool I had been sat on, and where I had not even had so much as an offer earlier I had now been rewarded for my efforts.
Tight Lines
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