JohnH
Well-known member
Fished there myself on Saturday 25 April.
Like Wassat Noyze I had the fishery to myself early in the day, although from the returns book plenty of local "regulars" had been fishing and catching during the week. I had 4 nice rainbows to 2-10 from Long Lake, all on a blue flash damsel, 2 on a slow nymph retrieve and 2 on a fast roly-poly. Interestingly, I spooned the fish and 2 contained natural food, but when I tried to match the hatch with a superglue buzzer in the right colour, then a dry fly, I couldn't buy a take. Then a quick river session, as much as anything to give some new chalkstream kit a shakedown. In the lower section of the river beat, there was plenty of interest from the resident browns in a cream czech nymph, and I caught and released a nice brown that will make 2lb when he's eaten a few mayfly nymphs next month.
I'll have a couple more river and lake days in the second half of the summer.
Like Wassat Noyze I had the fishery to myself early in the day, although from the returns book plenty of local "regulars" had been fishing and catching during the week. I had 4 nice rainbows to 2-10 from Long Lake, all on a blue flash damsel, 2 on a slow nymph retrieve and 2 on a fast roly-poly. Interestingly, I spooned the fish and 2 contained natural food, but when I tried to match the hatch with a superglue buzzer in the right colour, then a dry fly, I couldn't buy a take. Then a quick river session, as much as anything to give some new chalkstream kit a shakedown. In the lower section of the river beat, there was plenty of interest from the resident browns in a cream czech nymph, and I caught and released a nice brown that will make 2lb when he's eaten a few mayfly nymphs next month.
I'll have a couple more river and lake days in the second half of the summer.