Fishing Elinor for the first time this weekend. Any top tips please.

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Jim

My only worry is that when I die,my wife sells my fishing gear, for what I said I paid for it

Bank or boat, Jim ?

I was there on opening day, and most of the fish were at the far end backing onto the coarse lake or along the right hand side. Where you fish may depend on the wind.

Best methods were blobs, apps, damsels on floaters or slow intermediate. It fished very well considering the weather.

Charlie

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Thanks Charlie,

I am going out in a float tube for the first time so fishing may be the least of my worries.

where you fishing single flies or teams, sorry for all the questions just would like to be as prepared as possible as I think I am going to be concentrating on staying afloat more than the fishing.

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Jim

My only worry is that when I die,my wife sells my fishing gear, for what I said I paid for it

hi jim , three of us went yesterday. cold east wind still fished well. blowing down toward the pylons. small damsel, bloodworms, black buzzer all worked well.
lodge/dam end was very slow.
slow intermediate or floater worked ok, i prefer to fish a team. caught a big one on a silver corixa which always works for me at Elinor.

good luck should do well, dave

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I've increasingly been fishing a single fly as distance is so important off the bank at Elinor but that won't be an issue with a tube.

I would normally fish a couple of nymphs and a damsel or worm there.

Charlie

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I fished Elinor, today (Friday).

Bitterly cold wind blowing the wrong way just to make casting a bu**er.

On Ed's advice I went to the top of the lake and fished a small bay just down from the Pylon. Nixes..not a touch on my blood worm or a damsel or just about anything. Very few rods, if any, bending.

Slogged round to the other side to fish diagonally into the wind. Same result, not a touch and no rods bending but the boats were taking a few.

By this time it's near 1:00pm and I'm staring a serious blank right in the eyes.

The I distinctly heard the even, measured tones of Charlie "Try the Orange Blob, Roy, it usually works here".

Well, that was good enough for me..on went the Cortland Blue and an Orange and Peach Blob.

Wallop your worship...first of five from the far side. When I'd had enough of the wind I moved back to where I was and another three followed.

I chucked it in at about three o'clock so eight fish in two and a half hours ain't bad!!

A word of credit to Ed. Not one of those fish was under 3lbs. and a couple went North of 4lb. Actually, even he was surprised.

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Roy

Nice one Roy, glad to be of service, even when I am not there

Still, you should try that blob under the bung, even better

Great fish though, all mine were tiddlers on my last visit,

Charlie

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Hi Charlie, I did try freelining the Blob with no success. It was very fast stripping that did the trick and the more "shredded" the Blob became, the more assertive the takes.

Your Shade obviously wanders the Banks even when your working

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Roy

I snatched a few hours over there today.

Interesting day. The wind was a *****, again, just blowing from an even more contrary direction.

Started at the top of the lake and had four in fairly short order on a drifted Bloodworm. Red Letter day coming, I thought.

Then it just died..for me, at any rate. Fished the whole lake round to see if they had moved down yet..not even a touch.

By four o'clock I had had enough but my circumnavigation finished up bang where I started in the morning.

A bit weary but I thought, I'll just try one of Charlie's Angels

On went the Cortland Blue and an Orange and Silver Blob.

Wallop your Worship..first cast right at the end of a fast retrieve. Moved position slightly so I could cast parallel with the bank and....nine fish, from that spot, by five thirty. All big ones, again.

Who says 13 is an unlucky number...I did try to make it fourteen but was too knackered to compete with the wind.

Quel Jour!!

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Roy

Nice one Roy...................sounds like you will be joining Blobby Blobby soon

I don't think I've got one even

Strangely, just as you start doing it on the blob, I am having more success than ever before on the worm

Well done, anyway

Charlie

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