By the way this small worm thing started as a quest to discover what other food sources do our saltwater predatory species feed on. I wanted first to find possible food sources and then build flies that loosely represented these and maybe catch some fish.
One day during the fine spell of weather during April i was watching a patch of water, as you do, when i saw a fish jump quite close to shore. Nothing new there and i chalked it down to mullet or trout. Then i saw another and another. When i say close to shore i mean 5 feet. I approached the area slowly and realised there was a lot of fish (trout) shoaling and feeding in shallow water. The activity was one of intent rather than frenzy. This went on for quite a while until the tide simply fell off the area in question.
The little area maybe 50 feet by 15 feet had a few unique features. A small run off of freshwater from a land source (i mean small as in two feet). This water ran under a field of small rounded boulders and into the sea. In between the boulders was trapped seaweed - a lot of it broken into small pieces -see SW2
When i turned over the rocks i revealed the little creatures as seen in SW1 and many worms like in the foto above. This is obviously a feeding area. I have subsequently built/adapted many flies to look like these guys and have fished them occasionally with success and other days with no result. Mostly trout and occassionally mullet. #4 rod and WF line with long and light leader with delicate Fluoro tippet, sometimes i use an indicator
Its still a work in progress with a hell of a lot of work to do i think
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