Thought i was on for the 3rd blank in a row
But managed to find a small stretch with a few rising fish this afternoon, nothing special but managed a few up to about a 12".
The hatch trickled off for about an hour and half from 1330.
DHE soundly ignored but the Waterhen Bloa was taken first time every time.
Been a real challenge the last few days, i've noticed the fish don't seem to be holding station, they will rise but then move, make targeting them quite hard. It wasn't until today i found some regular feeders. The wind has been different each day and i reckon this has not helped, at least today there was a proper hatch
I was making the best of my new wading staff and have found a few places where i can get across the river, during one of my experiments i found myself standing 20ft behind a trout that was 3lb+ i could see it really clearly when the sun shone and it had dry's, spiders and nymphs drifted past its nose and it never even flickered a fin, most annoying. However I watched it for about 10mins and it seemingly did nothing, then it moved a few feet and did exactly the same. All this while Olives drifted over its head. It did this twice more before moving off to where i couldn't see it anymore. I never saw it rise at all during the whole hatch.
Anyway back to work for a few days now, so hopefully the weather can settle down and stop changing, a bit of rain might help as well
Sandy
