Nymphing for Grayling
Channel: Fishwish
Date: 2020-09-08

Nymphing For Grayling 

The setting for this Fishwish vlog is the River Frome in Dorset, which is perhaps the last wild chalkstream in Southern England and home to some very big but elusive grayling.  Children, floods and international pandemics were not going to get in the way of trying to find one...and ideally catch it on a covid lockdown tied fly.  

Nymphing for grayling is a rapidly growing sub discipline of fly fishing in the UK, especially the euronymping approaches.  As with all the angling videos on my fishing vlog playlist, I try and capture the day rather than explain all the equipment and technical details, but it's perhaps worth mentioning that a more traditional nymping approach proved to be more effective on the day.  For me, anyway and it eventually resulted in big old fish that had me smiling ear to ear.  I didn't weigh it but when people ask that age of question of whats your biggest fish ever caught, it definitely ranks at the top -even though I've caught other species considerably bigger.  I have even caught bigger grayling but they were on bait.  For me, it's not what you catch but how you catch.  It's all about the enjoyment and the benefits of fishing.        

There's loads of other stuff on YouTube that answer questions like 'how do you stop missing bites' but for me that just adds to the fun and what makes me want to go back.  I can't teach you how to cast under trees - that's a pain for you to enjoy learning for yourself!   You can't win them all and it's good to give the fish a chance - especially ones as beautiful as these.  On that note, I shall add a link to my video of 'how not to catch fish' 

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