This was my first outing to the only KAA running water I had yet to fish, the Congresbury Yeo in Somerset. Suffice to say size wise the stream was so small that I managed to drive over its bridge on the way to the beat without noticing it. This was proper jungle fishing with trees, bushes and all kinds of mainly organic debris strewed across the stream. You know it's jungle fishing when upstream progress becomes impossible without a quick clamber up the bank. You’ll get the drift if I tell you I had to chuck my rod up the bank or through a hole in the vegetation and then follow after it a few times. Just how I seem to like it.
I could have done with a 6’ or 6’ 6” rod rather than my normal seven foot six-er. I was delighted to catch 4 or 5 mainly tiny WBT from the surprisingly deep corner pools often right under big tree trunks or slightly undercut banks. I bumped off quite a few fish by not striking properly when I only half suspected I might have a bite (trust your instincts, Will) and managed to scare off a bigger than normal (1 1/2lbs?) trout that was rising confidently in an almost completely inaccessible spot. I think I probably managed about half the beat and whilst the fish were small I did scare away a couple of larger fish and the jungle adventure quality to the fishing will draw me back sooner rather than later.
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