| A Ride With Nige | July 2006 |
Dry and Sunny is my kind of weather but a dust covered Trail not only dulled the landscape but it formed a compound that is not good for your bike. So now we have had a couple of downpours everything is looking fresher - the scent from all the Honeysuckle is something to savour at the moment. The verges have been freshly trimmed back both upriver and downstream that is all but a section between Pentreath Point and the Iron Bridge where there is still a corridor of Orchids.
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| With the rain bringing a little colour to the River Camel I decided on a dawn fishing assault upstream on the Seatrout and Salmon. The mist was rolling back from the water as I cycled up to Pendavey Bridge and with the aid of the first shafts of daylight I worked all the pools up to Polbrock Bridge. | ||||
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Not a touch did I have other than a few brown trout that were really no bigger than my lure, however what I did see was a Kingfisher catching his breakfast - I was privileged to just sit and watch him diving in from great heights - how they don't go blind I don't know hitting the water at that speed - what I do know is that his success rate was a lot better than mine if I had to depend on my fishing skills for my breakfast I would be very hungry.
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