Good Day All, just a quick report for you from Friday 05 Mar 10, on Farmoor II
My brother and I took a boat at 09:30 the wind was N/NW at about 3-4 Knots, temperature was about 5 Deg C and the water temp about the same!!
Tactics were DI5, 8 ft leader and two boobies 4 ft apart, I was on Yellow Fritz Booby Blobs, Our Kid was on Black and Green with an Orange on the point.
We set the first drift around the 3 marker and slowly drifted with our lines being fished hard on the bottom and very slow.
The upshot was amazing!!
We took fish steadily for about three hours!! all fully finned and hard fighting, we lost one or two but still ended up with a 6 fish bag each.
My bag was 26LB (Yes 26 lb!!) and Our Kid had a bag of 17.5 Lb.
Biggest fish was an immaculate, fully finned Rainbow of 9 lbs that fought hard all the way to the boat and took some 15 mins to land.
Our Kid had a beautiful Rainbow of 4.5 lbs in his bag.
Mark has taken a couple of pics and they should be up on the board in The Office so you can see the quality of fish, amazing!!
I am going back on Weds 24 Mar for another go, and cannot wait!!
Thanks as always to the very informative and approachable staff that are in my opinion helping to give Farmoor II an enviable record as a superb year round fishery!!
Cheers

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Cheers and Beers
Bob

Hi all, had another day afloat on FarmoorII yesterday (Weds 24 Mar)
Wind was S/SE about 7 or 8 kts till mid afternoon when it died completely, air temp was a pleasant 12 Degs.
We started around the 4 bouy drifting towards the Valve tower, had 3 takes in the first drift, all threw the hook!! I was set up on a DI5, with a 10 ft leader,a Sunburst Yellow Booby at 5ft and a Red Sparkler Booby at the point. After a bit of head scratching and beginning to lose the plot a bit I finally inspected my hooks to find that I was fishing barbless! which is all well and good near the surface, but when you are fighting a fish from 30ft down, well!!
Anyway, RBS and I ended the day with 6 apiece, my bag weighing in at a touch over 14 Lbs, heaviest fish 3lb 4 oz. Ricks bag weighed in at a healthy 10lbs. In the other boat Our Kid and Checkers had a similar day with similar results, two full bags of beautifully conditioned Rainbows! We took to the water at about 09.30 and we were off by 15.30, with a half hour break ashore for lunch, so as you can see it is fishing superbly well still!!
As a point of interest as we were nearly wrapped up there were a good few fish topping and feeding on a marvellous "Ginger Buzzer" hatch, so maybe time to get the floating lines and a team of Nymphs/Buzzers on!! I love spring time!!

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Cheers and Beers
Bob