In the middle of an algal bloom, but the wind had blown it all to the east end, and the top half of the water was crystal clear.
Day of the year, conditions-wise, if you like sitting back, fishing dries, or twiddling nymphs. It could have been a couple of degrees warmer at the start, and a tad less bright at times, but it was the kind of calm, benign day we used to get all the time in the 1990s and see…
The forecast on Saturday night looked good – calm, possibly even flat calm, with reasonable cloud cover. However, we arrived on Sunday morning to cold and breezy, and not a cloud in the sky! To make matters worse, Gareth informed us fishing had been really tough recently. Ah well! Nothing ventured and all that, Stewart…
A reasonable day, conditions-wise – a tad wet at times, but nice breeze out the south-west and good overhead. It was flat calm, tackling up, which prompted me to start on dries, but before we even got on the water, a breeze had got up. Nevertheless, I had a look from a fish first cast,…
