I went to Farmoor today, in spite of the weather forecast and a rod average somewhere between 1 and 2 this week, "why would I care about the average" I happily muttered to myself on the way up the M40.

Well, pride comes before a fall as I never had a single pull and although the weather was not as bad as it had been suggested I packed up after four hours pretty convinced I would not catch unless I stayed till the evening which was not an option.

There were a few fish rising occasionally, but I went through most options, nymphs, washing line, boobies on the bottom, the bung and a few casts on dries but of the nine or ten anglers fishing there only two fish caught by lunchtime, one on a static booby and one on a black hopper.

There are lots of fish in there and the staff are clearly disappointed with the way it is fishing, but I think it is just a function of the variable wetaher and influx of rain water and I think it will fish really well in a few weeks.

Nowhere seems to be fishing well right now.

Charlie

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Hi Charlie,

>>Nowhere seems to be fishing well right now.<<

I was going to put a post up to see if it is just me but I've noticed it too. The Blythe was still pretty unfishable yesterday so I went to Packington.

Conditions looked near perfect...ripple, overcast etc. but no one caught a damn thing!!! I had one on, briefly, skittering a French Partridge across the surface but it was a fluke.

Met a man who had come to Pack. as his usual place, Lechlade, was having a tough time so it does seem to be pretty widespread.

Going to try Thornton on Tuesday...seems to be holding up.

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Yes, most venues are fishing poorly right now, given the cloud cover and lower than normal temps it is odd - trout cannot know it's raining

I have heard of Grafham, Rutland, Pitsford and Hanningfield all being poorer than one would expect.

Charlie

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