Went to Elinor today, supposedly to meet up with PP, but he overslept (for a change)
I set up a washing line rig with two crunchers and a floating damsel and a bung rig with a buzzer and a goldhead blob at 2 and 4 ft.
I had heard that the fish were up the far end and on damsels, but still had a couple of casts near the dam but there were juts odd fish moving and nothing had been caught. I then went up the East arm, where there are often a lot of fish under the pylons, but again saw nothing much moving and no pulls after about 15 minutes so I moved again round into the section with your back to the coarse lake and there were a lot more fish moving here, and it had recently been weed-cut so nice and fishable. First chuck on the bung and I missed one, next chuck hooked up but it came off then nothing. I noticed more fish moving to my right so went round towards the pylon imbetween the two arms.
As the sun came through, the damsel hatch was enormous and the fish went mental, slashing and boiling everywhere, but still neither I nor the other bank anglers were catching and just the very occasional fish was coming to the boats. I had now been fishing about an hour and a half and it was getting very frustrating. Suddenly, out of the blue, having slowed down my retrieve I caught one and next cast missed a pull then caught one and lost one in the next few casts - cracked it ! Well, so I thought, but no more fish for another half hour and the fish just carried on slashing and rising.
I saw Ed Foster talking to another bank angler and went round for a chat. He said this was typical at the moment - get a couple then nothing. I now moved round to the final pylon where it juts out into the West Arm. Even more fish here but no takes after fifteen minutes then suddenly, wallop, and a big fish leaping about. Turned out to be about 5lbs and had taken the booby. Next cast another, then lost one. I stayed here for about two hours and left there having had five fish from the spot, mainly on the booby.
I spent the last hour working my way down the West bank, dropping into bays where I saw fish rising catching and moving on. Finished the day at 3pm having had ten, all nice fish over 2lbs. Washing line, olive nymphs will be the method for the next few weeks, I feel.
A very pleasant day - set your alarm clock nect time Stewart
Charlie
Elionor 13/7
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