Carrying on from the previous post I headed down stream to Ballyduff Bridge beats 1,2 and 3 to give them a short run through with fly and spinner as I had only an hour or so left before I had to head off for home. I walked up to the start of Beat 1 and spun the far bank catching a couple of small hungry trout which I quickly released. Wading down on the nice gravel I fished the fly all the way to the bend using my 10ft 7wt Switch fly rod and floating line with a 5ins per second sinking 10ft versileader and a bullet tube. Looking at the water height and speed it would have been better bringing my 13ft 9in, 9wt scandi double hander and dredging it with my treble density line but my shoulder was still sore so I opted for the lighter option. Its absolutely beautiful water for fly which can be seen in the following pictures below, I've thrown in some pictures of beat 2 from the small hut to below the bridge nice spinning water with access to fishing with ladders etc. Beat 3 far bank from bridge upto the bend is again beautiful fly water as its shallow fishing into deep from that bank and that big pool on the bend is definitely a hot spot to slow down travelling fish. My shoulder was talking to me again to give it a rest so I just spun beat 2 under the bridge down to the bottom of the field and decided I'd had enough. Luckily as I was walking back up stream to beat 1, I was thinking maybe another cast at the bend but looking off into the distance I saw an ominous sight, dark clouds and the wind was just starting to pick up so I called time on the fishing. Having geared off the rain started and luckily I was all packed up and ready to go at that stage. I'll show the beats in order and from 1 to 3, not having fished beat 3 I'm just showing pictures from bridge up and far bank etc.
Looking upstream from bridge beat 3 right bank
Some of the pictures are out of sync because blogger keeps mixing them up unfortunately it picks at random and not as selected. I haven't fished beat 3 yet and that's why it's not fully photographed, I'll definitely get around to that in the coming weeks as it's a lovely bit of fly water and as I said it'll slow running fish up for a while.
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