I knew the fishing would be hard at this time of year and that most of the would have gone deep. The lake it's self is only around 15 feet at its deepest so I set up my DI3 forty plus line with a 5 foot leader of 5 pound Fulling Mill fluorocarbon To the end of this I attached a black booby with yellow eyes. Simple but effective.
As I approached the lake it started to rain. I started on the far end of the dam. This is a favourite spot of mine and only a few weeks ago I caught 20 fish from the same spot. After 15 minutes I had nothing, the guy next to me had managed an out of season brown, so I moved. I moved along the dam the the tower. First cast and a fish took on the drop, it was a spirited fight and the first fish was in the net. I continued in the spot by casting out the whole Airflo forty plus and allowing to sink for 20-40 seconds then bringing it back with a slow figure of eight retrieve and on the 3rd cast fish number 2 was in the net.
I decided to move again to stay warm!! So I moved into a small bay with some deep water on one side and shallow on the other, perfect. Lone behold I get one first cast on the drop at over 45 yards, only to bring it all the way to the net for the fly to come out. I persist in the area and manage three more fish on the same fly and method Then the wind picked up and it became hard to cast far enough to reach the fish and it was freezing so I move back to the dam.
On the way I saw an old friend Dave Willacey who I first met in the Ulverston fly dressers guild. We have a chat and he tells me he is finding it hard going but has had 3 on small buzzers. As we chat fish start to rise in front of him and he misses several short sharps takes on the buzzers. I cant resit any longer and move along side him.
20 Minutes later I have 4 more fish, but this time I am using an olive booby with orange eyes. All of the last 4 fish are stunning blue trout and one was around 4 pounds. These are fantastic fish and put up a very strong fight. By now it is 1 o'clock and I decided my 10 fish is enough and head home to watch the rugby.
Overall not a bad day, I have had some cracking fish and England won the rugby!!
James
