Here’s a quick, almost intuitive spot of a trout in fast, roughish water. Scan the whole picture quickly and see if anything strikes you.The answer is in the final picture. Clues If you look at the usual characteristics of spotting they are here: Linear shape Sitting over a shadow Some…

May I suggest that you scroll through all the sequences right to the end before looking at any of the answers? Then scroll through all the answers. Then try the exercise all over again from the first picture on. WALKING ALONG A STREAM Walking along a riverbank I always keep…

Let's start with a couple of easy trout, the first one seen in a run from a cliff path is a big fish for a smallish stream. Fish enlarged in picture below The second is an equally easy spot, though not in the first picture, again stressing the importance of…

SPOTTING TROUT - PART 7 In this series of three different settings I will start with a sighting from a cliff path walking back after a day’s fishing. I often see fish on the walk out on this stream, sometimes – well, mostly actually – fish we missed fishing up…

SPOTTING TROUT – PART SIX Again I will post all the answers at the end of this piece. A difficult rise but an easy spot These pictures you will have seen before if you’ve been following this series. I include them just as a quick refresher. The first fish is…

SPOTTING TROUT PART FOUR In this exercise I will include the pictures I want you to study, but the answer pictures (where the fish has a neat black rectangle around it) will all be at the end of this section and in sequential order. Let’s start with a simple, straight…

SPOTTING TROUT PART THREE – SOME EASIER SIGHTINGS The Amandelstroom The Amandelstroom is without any doubt the clearest little trout stream I have ever seen in this country. It rises in a mountain range just beyond the town of Worcester in the Western Cape and flows into the Hex River.…

SPOTTING TROUT PART 2 In this exercise I want to show you (1) the effect of wind riffled water in spotting trout and (2) how if you watch a trout for a while you can tell what it’s feeding on. Obviously this isn’t always possible, but often it is and…

SPOTTING TROUT PART 1 My intention is to run a series over the next few weeks where we spot a few trout together. The pictures come from a few hundred I have collected over the past couple of years carrying a long lens with a polarising filter up and down…