I took the Sawanaboori 53 out today. Caught fish nymphing, on jig streamers, swinging, and on hoppers.
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The trout fishing season is almost finish here in France .
Yesterday I went fishing with a friend on a nice canyon in the Vercors, near Grenoble.
The river has limestone bedrock ant the water is crystalclear.
The trout are stripped , like this young one
When they are older only 3 dark strips remain
Here is my latest one for the 2021 season , not very big but so cute fish. All the fish are released, we hope to meet them again next year 
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@JeanSantos thanks for sharing. thats some beautiful scenery there. nice fish too.
did you make the landing net?
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Very nice. Thanks.
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Thank You Neil and David 
@ Neil_Young : Yes we built our own landing nets ( tamo ) The frame is made out of a single branch of hackberry ( micocoulier ) This tree has been used for centuries to make wooden hay forks in a small town near my home : Sauve
http://fourchedesauve.free.fr/conservatoire%20fourche/fabrication.htm
Its wood is light and very convenient for a tamo, once you cut the central branch . We purchased the mesh from Tenkara-Ya or from inexpensive Chinese landing nets
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thanks for the info. we have tons of hackberry here. i will have to be on the lookout for an appropriate branch.
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Yesterday’s outing with the Mutant (380 cm length 4:6) started out with a 2 mile hike in to hit the water at 12:00 PM. 15 minutes later I launched a 4" Redside Shiner like the one shown here from a couple of months ago (the pic of the yesterday’s fish was blurred & over exposed).
It’s a pretty species of fish, but I was after native Costal Cutthroat; possibly the Sea Run variant in coming into their natal stream to hang with the residents for a short time. 15 minutes later a Cutt (likely a rezzie) took my fly.
In another 15 minutes this guy mistakenly thought my Takayama style Pheasant Tail would help him reach kahuna status and coughed up a Snow Berry, along with a partially digested (deer?) fly and Shiner in the net.
Another 15 minutes (there’s a pattern here) and a ways upstream this this guy; a possible Sea Run, was hooked upstream in an eddy behind a boulder and log in a run but immediately shot down into a small pool below me. At the start I was not in control
but was able to steer it away from the rock wall and submerged branch opposite me (river left) and was somehow able to keep it away from the undercut bank and submerged brush on the river right side of the pool I was standing above. He finally started to tire and I felt confident enough to bring him close to the net but he wasn’t done and wanted to go for another couple of laps. I think I found my limit for the Mutant at my skill level. He also coughed up a Snowberry in the net. Gives me an idea for a new fly 
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The next section was a wide deep weedy pool section with a lot of fry and small shiners so I moved through. One hour later that included a lunch break I was back on my 15 minute schedule to get 3 more Cutts from 9" to 11" before my 1.5 mile hike out to the car.
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This sounds like a great fishing day.
A snow berry fly pattern hu? I might give that a try too.
C’est juste à coté de chez moi, j’y pêche régulièrement, joli parcours ! 
Le monde est petit n’est-ce pas Olivier ? Il faudra bien qu’un jour on s’y retrouve 
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caught this one in the drainage ditch after work yesterday. right after i let him go i got another on the line. he really bent the rod for a few seconds and then he snapped my 4lb tippet. i will keep trying for him.
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Kris, what an awesome fish!!! Way to go. The brown trout looks at least 17-18 inches in length. Wait a minute, fishermen round length up so let’s call it 20 in. to be fair about the measurement. 
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I had a tough session today. This fellow and an acrobatic rainbow at the last minute made it worth it though.
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