A beautiful day today, lovely and warm with a nice wee breeze
![cool dude :z12](https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/Smileys/classic/icon_sunglasses.gif)
So i spent the day on a favourite beat in great company.
Over the duration of the day we saw quite a few rising fish, but what they were feeding on was not always very obvious.
At first i thought it was the large dark olives that were trickling off late morning
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So did this guy, but then the others didn't seem to think so...........
Next up there were Grannoms skittering about and it looked like there was about to be a huge Grannom hatch, there was a good hatch but not the blizzard the conditions suggested might happen, At the start of the hatch a small dhe fooled a couple
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Some real yellow Sally stoneflies were on the wing, but the trout didn't bat an eyelid at those
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The one decent size fish i sat on for several hours was feeding sporadically against the far bank, i tried all sorts of flies, DHE's , plume tips, CDC spiders and all were ignored in a variety of sizes. I even went down to a size 18 black smut and he looked at it but didn't convict to eating it......what to do
![dunno :z8](https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/Smileys/classic/icon_dontno.gif)
He went quiet for a wee while so i wandered off. When i came back he was still rising every now and then so i harked back to a paragraph i read in a Rene Harrop book about how sometimes a big terrestrial can fool a feeding fish. So a rake around my bag and i found a size 12 Hawthorn. There were none to be seen anywhere, but what the hell......... First cast.....
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Best of the season so far 21" and an on the line 4lb in the net
![cool dude :z12](https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/Smileys/classic/icon_sunglasses.gif)
Once he went back he decided to sit in front of me for several minutes, so i couldn't resist invading his recovery time..
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Bonny fish, well pleased after a weeks worth of trying in all sorts of conditions
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Late in the afternoon there was a sporadic hatch of Olive uprights and this time i managed to catch one to confirm it was them
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The fish kept rising, but very hit or miss and it was tough, but i was almost tempted to stay and see what the evening brought, might keep that for tomorrow
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Sandy