Dace?

Just taken delivery of a new 15 foot Greys rod to widen my armoury so off out I went into the wet and gloom with some reds that were mostly caster. As I crossed the bridge below the mill a fish rolled so mind made up. It was gone 4 and already the gloom was descending so I reckoned only a few trots  worth of light left. The flow was fairly stiff close down so the extra two feet of rod came into play to peel just that bit more off the pin to allow a cast to the slower  zone and once I'd sorted the depth the float stabbed under and that characteristic  near grayling corkscrew struggle and a rather red finned dace was in my hand. Next fish felt different and when it neared the net I'd have almost said skimmer or little hybrid but it seemed to be a deeper and paler than normal dace.

The rod? The two extra feet do make a big difference, especially holding the line off the water. Not a rod for close quarters stuff to be sure. It has a short removable lower handle section, perhaps to help balance the rod if it's in the hand for a long period? Need a more thorough work out, and with  a fixdie too, and may be far bank waggler will come in to play. Very nice to play fish on. Don't fancy my chances with an errant pike though.

A very brief light show this morning out the front of Bureboy Villas.

Murk soon prevailed.