 Hi everyone, it's minus six degrees last night, so I thought I'd come out and do some railing fishing today It's one of the few fish that we'll feed when it's really really cold a fixable reel It's so blooming cold I didn't want to use a center pin as much fun as they are they get really cold I'm ready seven AA shot The bulk of it is two-thirds down with a couple of number four droppers to a size 18 barbless hook I'm using a really light hook length if I hook a salmon or sea trout I want to pull for a break as soon as I can I don't want to cause any distress to those fish while they're spawning So mostly pinkies in there with a scattering of juicy red maggots as hook bait I caught my biggest grayling using this method One of the first responses I got from someone was well you have to try and catch one on fly next time There's no more skill in fly fishing nymphing For grayling than there is trotting for them. They're just two different skills Three or four foot deep in front of me. You've got this fast current that goes down into this big pool here And it's loads of helicoid your flow you'll see that flows not even It's quite difficult to present a bait and what I'm doing is trying to work these creases along the edge of the bank on the inside line And then again on the opposite one into that crease I struck into it Nothing happened but the bait's gone. So that's it was a bite right after all So I'm really having to hold that float back. It's got really very depth this pool. So Fish picks up the bait and it might reject it without me even registering on the float So I've covered this water and I had a sniff so probably time to move on. What's happened? I was trotting down there on the inside of the float The float looked like a snake and I was just getting a general hit and it just tore off down river Oh, well done. Is it still on that is it? Oh, well don't you resting it? Yeah It's a chunk That's a big uh big brownie isn't it? I'm trying to avoid touching because the temperatures it's crazy, you know That's tight Nice well done. Thank you, Joey Yeah, nice. Let's get straight back. I'm only posing. I'm afraid what scrap. Is that a wild brownie? Difficult to tell when they're that big and they got he's got red spots, doesn't he? So It's one of those things I've stopped being so obsessive about really whether they're wild or not. Yeah, it was an amazing scrap They're certainly capable of getting that big in this river You see why I didn't want to touch him with my hands. Yeah, yeah, definitely. He'll revive because I get temperature shock from the hands Yeah, he'll go swim when they you saw filming. Yeah Look I come He don't need to get a moment the float was under you think I'll hit the bottom And I was just thinking about it and the float the float just snapped it looked like a snag Hit into it. Come on, mate You see the damage on his um underneath his tail. Yeah, if you put him in the main current Yeah, nice one Are you ready to go yet? Do you think I'm not really? Yeah, I think you might this is to keep yourself upright. Yeah I can't I land on that light hook. That's nice to see a fish. You know it's out I know I know I first I thought I thought it was a grading my shower Well done for not insisting on having an opposed photo for it as well There's so many people do he just wants to go in on the bottom of the net, isn't he? He's fine now, I think Excellent Meanwhile, yeah Take a more tomorrow impression It's a grading sorry grading well done So That's what we came here for Let's see if I get there cow Let's use the net as a barrier between the hand and the fish something that really frustrates me I saw recently someone holding a brace of Grayling And like if you've ever tried holding one of these They are God that is barbless because that is Hey, that's out I'm gonna get my hands wet That's a beauty Yeah All right, let's get him back Double maggot, yeah Yeah double maggot, thanks to that's it These fish get tired out so quick I want to swim out the net if I can If you can He's gone No, it's a good bite Yeah, do you mind telling me to trot through? No, I'm high They're probably shoaled up will No, I think I've shoaled up I don't know he didn't go downstream yet and came up when I hooked him it was solid Absolutely solid thought I'd hooked something much much bigger. I'm honest That was a bite, wasn't it? Yeah, cool Really cheeky trot it down, further down My fingers are camping out Are you in? Well done, I didn't get it on camera Oh come on, oh no That's a really confusing one I saw Show us a reaction Bollocks I'm lucky you sure you're giving up here I thought you were pulling maggots Was he now? Yeah Blimey Blimey, pulled that down a lot Missing bites, why not A bit of a rural Wonder why it's called trotting Don't go sliding into the river though, mind Yeah, I'll put some hooks on this Fair enough