Hi
I went fishing today on a local trout lake in leicestershire only had two fish and only a hand full of pulls from 7.30am till 4.30pm it has been fishing its head off been getting my limit for the past 4 weeks but today was really hard even a season ticket holder blanked and he has been fishing the lake for years, I tried nearly every fly i got, As a biginner i still have alot to learn, do you think it had something to do with the cold nw wind we had?

cheers mitch

It will be the cold wind. My theory is the fish would wanted the flies slow and were holding down a bit in the water. Presentation of a slow moving fly with a brisk cold wind always makes things difficult especially when the fish have been used to feeding in the top 3-4 feet for weeks. Wind is flyfishers worst enemy. A small booby on an intermediate may have caught you some fish but as you know, its not always allowed. Your best bet would have been to concentrate on the most shelterd areas of the water if possible. Hope this helps

It is to do with fishing...(incidentally it called fishing , not catching...) why people have this expectation of bagging up every time is beyond me...

it could be down to many things, wrong fly, wrong size of fly, fishing in the wrong place, fishing too shallow, fishing too deep, wrong speed of retrieve.. weather....get the idea ??

at the end of the day you caught two and missed several takes, i cannot see how you can be disappointed, however, if you are looking to catch a dozen fish a trip than this isnt the sport for you...

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I find rather than the cold wind, it's the change in weather that makes the fish more difficult to catch. IME it's more pronounced with big fish than small, but all are affected. best conditions are in settled weather whatever that weather may be. For example if it's been raining all week and Saturday dawns bright and sunny, you'll get better fising on the Friday...

Conditions change and you have to adapt to them. Flies and tactics that worked last week may be useless this week.
It's one of the fascinating challenges of fly fishing, trying to read the water,sussing out how the trout might be behaving if they aren't showing on top, guessing which fly might do the trick. I'd be bored senseless if I was guaranteed a limit bag on the same fly and tactic every time. It sounds like you did well to catch anything that day.

Of course, on a commercial fishery it could be that the proprietor hasn't done any stocking lately.

Just keep trying !

I totally agree with every point made in this statement.......

I agree.

I spent the most wonderful day fishing last week at Hanningfield out on a boat.

Fished for 10 hours and it seemed like 1. Good weather and good company made for a perfect day. Takes me away from the day to day hussel and bussel of life - that's why I go fishing.

I should add that I had a blinder and caught my limit, lost a few and had more than a few pulls. But that was a bonus - If I'd had now't the day would have still been a good one. Treat a fish in the bag as a bonus, makes it all the more enjoyable when you 'get lucky'.

A tip for when you're not catching? Try the opposite of what you are doing. I went from floating line and nymphs (fish were showing on the top) to sinking line and blobs and it was a revelation.

Fazzer

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Hi
thanks for the comments everyone
I know fishing is fishing and you dont catch all the time i have been fishing since i was about 4 years old to know that.
I wasnt disappointed with catching 2 fish i really enjoy fishing even if i dont catch fish i just like sitting there casting away trying to work out what they are feeding on.
All i wanted to know as a biginner to fly fishing if the wind played apart in not catch as a few of the people with abit more knowledge blanked.

cheers mitch

i tend to agree with what brownie was saying its the change in weather rather than actual wind direction,once the weather settles whtever that maybe then the fish settlehth johnny

Hi fish4life

I know exactly what you mean.. Sometimes you get to know a water and a few different tactics that often seem to do the trick, but then every now and then, in what seems to be good conditions, the fishing is nothing what it usually is, or the water seems dead.

Like mentioned above, this is fishing and i think you understand this.

I have found that atmospheric pressure plays a big role in the feeding of trout.. High and Low pressure systems determine, to quite a large extent, what depth the fish are holding at, and therefore what they will be feeding on. It is sometimes very useful to get a barometer reading before heading out, so when the usual tactics seem to be failing you might have an idea as to why.
Fazzer suggested doing the opposite of what you might be doing. I think this is a very good idea. On one or two occasions i remember getting so frustrated with not getting any results, especially when you can see fish moving and then nothing seems to work, i would stick on something completely out of the ordinary and then...Bam..!!

Hope this helps
D

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