I spent a great day saturday afloat with my brother at farmoor and was surprised to hear for the ranger chris there were lots of fish moving and large ammount of buzzers hatching etc. This some what changed my plans and shows you the effect some sustained weather can have even early in the season.
ANYWAY largely my brother and myself fished same tactics with a washing line with intermediate lines, then buzzers later in the afternoon. WHY is it (and i am trying not to be the green eyed monster) BUT WHY IS IT, that the trout were seemingly throwing themselves at his flies at twice the rate of mine

To top this off too many times to remember he would put his rod down to make a brew,pee,eat, etc etc and shortly after the rod would be going out of the boat as trout tried to make off with his flies.

To top the day off i got smashed by a monster well a smash take on the buzzers anyway.

DEFINATLY,my boat partner in the melvin open last year,strapped his swivel boat seat on my good teak seat and proceeded to gouge a full circle out of it,when i noticed it and told him through gritted teeth what he'd done, he rubbed his finger round it and said it would be ok with a drop of filler in it.By this stage i had complety lost it but rather than make a scene eventually got him ashore out of the boat and haven't seen him since.Don't know if i'll go this year fed up getting drawn with to many partners who haven't a clue about boats or lough fishing.