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Grayling

Tuesday, two grayling at 1lb 12oz. Wednesday, one at about a pound and a new pb at 2lb 3oz. Thursday, one around a pound, as second pb at 2lb 8oz and a nice back up fish of 2lb 4oz (no photo).

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I’ve taken my boy to the Dales for a couple of nights for half-term (fishing, walking, seeing nice things). Couple of hours on the Ure before we checked in at the cabin and nine decent fish- five grayling and four brownies. Weather was a bit of a brutal downstreamer which made hitting bites fun with a 17’ Acolyte! Still, the fish didn’t mind and they were all beautifully nicked in the top lip. Best one went to the boy on first trot through…

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Blimey, I’m glad we went out today. It’s blowing a right old hoolie up in the dales tonight and it’s set to rain all day tomorrow!
 
Tom Casey said:
Fished locally yesterday afternoon into dark , float fishing with corn or meat on the hook . I managed 4 grayling over a pound on corn and 3 on meat . Best fish approx 1lb 6oz , caught at 1805 p.m . Could just see the float , minmal feeding and not a maggot in sight .
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I’ve never used meat for them before but I’ve tried corn lots of times only to fail miserably every time.
Great angling on your part, I’ll stick with my red maggots
 
Experimenting today with even bigger hooks than I normally use for grayling. The average size improved with only one particularly small one and it also reduced the number of minnows.

I ended the afternoon with 18 grayling to around 1lb 8oz(ish) and 7 spotty turbo nutters. I might go up another hook size next time out.
 
Chris Jones said:
Experimenting today with even bigger hooks than I normally use for grayling. The average size improved with only one particularly small one and it also reduced the number of minnows.

I ended the afternoon with 18 grayling to around 1lb 8oz(ish) and 7 spotty turbo nutters. I might go up another hook size next time out.
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I'm guessing you used a 12s super speci hook 🤔
 
Tom Casey said:
Fished locally yesterday afternoon into dark , float fishing with corn or meat on the hook . I managed 4 grayling over a pound on corn and 3 on meat . Best fish approx 1lb 6oz , caught at 1805 p.m . Could just see the float , minmal feeding and not a maggot in sight .
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Used to get a lot of grayling on corn when fishing the Irfon in Builth years ago.
 
In about four decades, I've tried corn once or twice a year on the Swale and never had a single grayling on it.

Last year I saw a single fish extracted from the Tees on corn. It was the first on corn I've ever seen, but it wasn't by me. However, it was by a mate. We just happened to meet on the bank over the Christmas period. He was making do with a pint of leftover maggots that were essentially floating casters supplemented by a tin of corn. Despite managing to catch one, he wasn't slow to accept the offer of half of my maggots.

A couple of months later, I had a trip a bit further afield. Whilst I didn't get one on corn. A couple of my angling companions did.

I've long had the impression that the more corn is used on a particular river, the more the grayling will accept it. If your river of choice doesn't see corn being used very often, you may well struggle.
 
Good point Chris, the Irfon fish were used to seeing corn back then as my friend used to bait heavily with it for the chub.
 
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