With nearly half the season gone I thought it was about time to give the club water a bash.
I was hoping for a mayfly hatch but I think I might have been a bit late. There were a few trickling off all day though and the fish were still willing to have a go at one.
The first pool gave up an 8 incher. This fish took the fly as I was stripping it back from a slack backwater where the wind (or was it my iffy casting...) had dropped it. Quickly after came a little one and then it all went wrong for a bit. I fished up through three fields without landing anything. Very few fish were rising and most of those looked like parr. I missed a few and had one better one fall off.
Time for a brew and a tactical re-think.
While waiting for the kettle to boil a fair few fish showed in the pool but again they all looked like little things. There were by this point millions of black gnat over the water but nothing seemed interested.
So after tea I went downstream to one of the bigger, deeper and rather still pools to sit and watch in the hope that something worthwhile would turn up. Again all the rises looked like tiddlers but I chucked my mayfly at them anyway and was surprised to get an 10 incher and two 12 inchers
I wonder how many of the other little rises might have been big 'uns now
The best two.
Hackled Mayfly. It's not (that) big and it's not clever (but it works!)
Andy
Taw 1st June
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