A limit of tennis balls!

Yes how annoying is that, I'm only allowed to take one and then catch and release and my first was a tennis ball.

Just returning my green pea on a di3 and bump. It must be a fish? it's not weed. it was a good take, why isn't it fighting harder? well that's because it's a tennis ball. Yes I managed to hook one off the bottom about 15yards out. It looks a bit manky, must have been thrown in by a dog walker a little while ago thankfully.

It's surprising what you hook when your fishing, someones cast is fairly common and I managed to hook a rod and line last year, very nice. However my all time favourite was by a great pall of ours who is sadly no longer with us Bob Pickering. While fishing in Pitsford creek a number of years ago now he hooked a fish and started to play it. He did shout us all round as it was was very heavy. As he started to get it closer he realised it was two fish. His top dropper was out the water then his middle and we all laughed that he must have caught them both on the same fly but as he netted them we realised that he had actually hooked someone Else's nylon that the two two fish on. We ribbed him for considerable time that he was that good he didn't need his flies to catch fish.

After all of that Mike Philpott, Phil Cross and myself have had a day on the banks of Pitsford but it was hellish windy, a North easterly and most places were un-fishable. After driving around the water at least once trying a few favourite spots the only place that looked any good was sailing club bank point as it enters Brixworth Bay. We found fish but right at the end of our cast Mike Managed 4 and I managed 5 mostly stockies as below. The fish were down in mid water at about 8ft and either a floater with gold bead or a di3 did the best for us on green and black lure. Phil struggled with the wind and distance today but it was good practice.

It got a bit busy on the point later on because the other spots were limited. There seemed to be a posse of Rutland Water Bailiffs ( anyone know what the collective noun for this is? not too rude please.) let out for the day. The best casters were taking most of the fish but there were enough there for everyone. Maybe go back for a look tomorrow!