At the beginning of the trip everyone in the party was a little disappointed in the lack of grayling until I demonstrated that you had to fish through the aggressively feeding trout before you had a chance of the grayling. Good trout these, averaging perhaps 25cm, but with plenty of fish over 30cm. Catches of trout for everyone in the group were in double figures each day, and Lawrence and Stuart were both catching upwards of 30 a day, mostly on duo style. I split my time between guiding and actually fishing, and for the first time in more than a year, began to re-engage the magnificent San and its legendary fish. My group was five strong, with Lawrence Greasley, Stuart Crooks, Gerald Collins, and Joe Zienowicz from America who added a lot to the party. We followed the small Fish & Fly group on the river so knew what to expect, after hearing that Dave Southall and his companions had enjoyed excellent low water sport with long leaders and mostly dry fly. My own first trip was at the end of July. The water remained mostly low, and this actually persisted throughout the rest of the season, with only a few days when heavy rain coloured and lifted the flow.Īll the early season groups enjoyed their trips, but unfortunately only glimpsed the San’s potential. Wojtek Gibinski started reporting back to me that the groups were finding plenty of brown trout, though grayling were scarce. Then, in late June, the magic began to return. From a rather ordinary start in May this year the river was up and down with cold tail water release from the dams (following a winter of heavy snow) and the fishing was slow to develop. It is very difficult to write this, however, because I know that it will seem unbelievable.īear in mind that this season followed a comparatively poor 2008, which was spoiled by frequent floods and a scarcity of fish until the autumn. I thought it best to update the Frontier series, appropriately, with the year’s San River report.
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