River Test

[rosco]

Hi,
I'm lucky enough to work for a company who owns beats on this river.Will be fishing it on the 12th May.£30.00 a day!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to make some enquiries about taking a guest at a subsidised rate.Maybe one of you may want to come?I'll post again and let you know the outcome.
Having said that,does anybody have any tips as I,ve not fished this river before

Regard's

Rosco

[tagman]

Used to live down there so i fished the test a lot. As trout streams go its not that difficult. There are a lot of both brown and rainbow stocked into the river, these range in size but there are quite a few ex broodstock fish these are fish reared for eggs. When these fish are too old or stop producing eggs a lot are put into the river. Brown trout 6lb + aren't uncommon.
The river is very clear so stalking is a good bet(polarised glasses essential), floating line with 4-6lb hooklink and hare's ear size 12 plonked on there nose has always worked for me, these stockies are thick and will instinctivly snap at most flies.

Scale down for wild fish, 2-3lb line with grey dusters dries working well in the evening.

Any form of heavy nymph fished slow along the bottom for the grayling.

tight lines

[rosco]

Used to live down there so i fished the test a lot. As trout streams go its not that difficult. There are a lot of both brown and rainbow stocked into the river, these range in size but there are quite a few ex broodstock fish these are fish reared for eggs. When these fish are too old or stop producing eggs a lot are put into the river. Brown trout 6lb + aren't uncommon.
The river is very clear so stalking is a good bet(polarised glasses essential), floating line with 4-6lb hooklink and hare's ear size 12 plonked on there nose has always worked for me, these stockies are thick and will instinctivly snap at most flies.

Scale down for wild fish, 2-3lb line with grey dusters dries working well in the evening.

Any form of heavy nymph fished slow along the bottom for the grayling.

tight lines

Thank's for that.I shall try what you suggested.

Regard's

Rosco

[Shropfisher]

Depending on which stretch your on, it may be Dry fly only ( most of it is ) and grayling can not be targeted with nymphs. I have fished the test and as already said, it is not hard, they are stock fish, and most river trout can not be too fussy, so a daddy would be a good pattern, but take some smaller dries as well, ( not knowing which stretch your on ) We shocked the Baliff on the Derbershire Derwent when we showed him our dry fly box ( all Resi Dry Flies ) he laughed and walked off shaking his head muttering something like "Good Luck " we had a great day, fish after fish all day.