Have to say after quite a successful early seaon I'm struggling a little. I'm reasonably confident my methods are OK but every time I have struggled it's been bright. All other times I've caught and seen plenty of fish moving.

I'm generally fishing DB, crunchers and PTN on a floater as this has always been successful but are there better ways of catching when it's bright or should I just stay at home?

This is at Grafham BTW.

Maybe I should add that others have struggled at the same time as well so I'm clearly not the only one.

Sustained bright weather sucks. High water temperatures are a bigger issue though.
On some of the smaller waters in the SE, many owners are reluctant to stock fully, because of the increase in water temperature.
The last thing a fishery needs is a lake full of belly-up fish.
Apparently in the last couple of months with the warm evenings & hot days the water temp. got dangerously high.

Thanks to global warming, the old close season is the new open season it seems.

Try buzzers under an indicator

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I fished Thornton last week and it was grey and overcast with a slight breeze all day and from the whole lake i saw only one fish get landed (ahem, mine!).

Then as soon as the sun came out then everyone started to catch, i dont think the fish had read the script that day!

I can only speak from experience at Thrybergh , from a tube I could catch reliably in those conditions using fast sinker, fishing black marabou lure with orange blob on dropper , slow retrieve after counting down to around 25 ft
I found the depth was critical, the fish would show in large shoals on the fishfinder around this depth , over the deepest water.
BobC