Mostly Teaching

A bit of practice in the early part of the week before having a few hours fishing at local still water to try and christen my new rod, a TFO Lefty Kreh Pro Special 9' 6# that I bought along with an 8# whilst in the US.

The weather was slightly overcast with the the forecast for rain later so as I only had a few hours to spare I got too it as quick as possible. Fished a small Black Pennel on the dropper and a Diawl Bach on the point and was soon into a fish that had taken the dropper a nice rainbow of about 2lb. A couple of other anglers were hooking up and then it went quiet with no sign of fish moving at all.

Moved over to the opposite bank to try my luck there and found fish rising in the slack water against the far reed bed so these were my target fish, it took a while but eventually managed to get a nice 4lb fish to make a mistake and it was soon safely netted and released to fight another day. Quite pleased with the rod it performed fine and will be useful as one of my teaching rods.

Friday saw the first of my lessons for the week and was a good success with plenty of fish being caught from the start, it was just a shame that once the heavy rain came it just put the fish off completely and even the experienced anglers were not getting any joy. Thankfully the rain cleared away just before they packed up and a few more fish came to the bank, best of the day was just over 5lb a very nice fish but most were in the 3 to 4lb bracket.
All seemed happy with what they had caught and some even happy with the ones that got away seeing that most of them had never fly fished before.

Saturday morning it was over to Curleys Fishery for a lesson with a client of mine. Weather again played a huge part in the session with heavy downpours interrupting things, Adrian did well to keep going at times with such awful conditions. Good lesson and hopefully I've hooked him on fly fishing, he did really well.
Saturday afternoon I assisted a colleague with a group lesson on behalf of my mentor Mike Roden. This group were on a full day lesson so had had to contend with the bad weather of the morning that just kep on going in the afternoon, not pleasant conditions to try and put into practice what you had been shown in the lesson but they stuck at it and it was just a shame that no fish came to the bank despite all their efforts.

Sunday morning and it was back at Curleys covering a lesson for Mike. Client picked up the casts very quickly and was soon out on the main lake fishing. A lot of fish were moving but they were hard to tempt, others that were fishing were down deep with sinking lines and weighted lures but for a beginner casting such lines would have been hard work so we stuck fishing the top layers and he was rewarded with a lovely conditioned rainbow of about 3lb. A good end to a good lesson.

Going to try and get some fishing in myself over the next few days before the rain comes into the area again.

If your out there fishing this week Tight Lines

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