First time on Carsington this year. Nice warm day out with a steady SW breeze. Thought the fish would be down a bit so started with a Di6 with a Booby and Damsel. Looked promising as first cast had a follow to the booby.
That was it though as I popped the booby with no more interest at all. My boat partner FB had moved a fish on the floater and we noticed the odd fish moving. Changed to the floater with my favorite team, montana on bob, captain scarlet in the middle and blob on the point. With great confidence, continued to blank in style. The fish were obviously not interested in the blob so put on a black WB. First cast a take, just a small stockie but a start. Later in the drift picked up another fish on the WB. Changed the bob to a claret dabbler with almost instant results. This was what they wanted!, or so I thought. Caught 5 fish on that drift between us, mainly on claret flies.
Next drift the fish seemed to have gone down, but we still picked up the odd one or two. The wind now started to drop and it went calm. We could see fish moving but getting near or over them was a different story. FB had one on a montana so I changed the WB to a blob thinking this was blob country. No I was wrong again. They just didn't want bright flies today at all. I put on a montana and eventually picked up a fish. There was now a few fish moving and not long before we had to go in. Now if you covered a fish it would chase. We picked up another 4 in the last 1/2 hour.
Ended up with 12 to the boat. Nothing big but nothing easy.
Good evening's fishing. We got back in and found that most people had struggled, even the guys fishing deep with big lures failed to catch any amount. So we felt pretty pleased with our day. Not what I expected at all.
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