Ok it was actually my second day as the previous Sat i'd nipped over for a couple of hours (see anything rising thread) and found a few fish moving to LDO's with a small (but very welcome) fish falling to the DHE (what else for me?
)
Anyway last Tuesday and a day off work found me standing on a little bridge looking for hatching flees and rising troots.
Well i didn't even get as far as the bridge as i'd saw enough action on the way there so it was rush back to the car boot and get kitted oot. 4 mins later and on the water.
There was a reasonable hatch of LDO's and a few fish respondin, but they had that early season head on and were ignoring more than they were eating. Simply not recognising them as a food source yet. And as they weren't hard on the feed they were hard to tempt.
But weather conditions were perfect and i had plenty water to explore so i set off in search of targets and before too long found a willing fish or two (or four to be exact
) all in the 8 to 10 inch range.
Found some nice water like this
And looked out for things like this
And hope it ended up like this
All in all a crackin wee day and hopefully a decent spell of settled weather will have them on the top in earnest with some 'Rod Benders' amongst them.
Strangely there was a reasonable couple of flurries of MB's which were completely ignored by the fish so i suspect these were the very first hatches. Won't be long before they're geting nailed in earnest. Sadly i'll have to wait a couple of weeks now as i'm off to Carron next Sat for the first of my SNFFL matches.
Actually what am i saying, where's that holiday card?
Allan