Windy Ravensthorpe

I was out on Ravensthorpe with Phil today and in some rough winds thought it would be the best bet of the reservoirs.

When we arrived we were sharing the water with the British float tubers and they were all floating like brown swans in front of the dam. I commented to Graham that it much be fishing great infront of the lodge but they had all just launched. They were drifting gracefully but you know that they were paddling like fury underneath. It was great to see them around and they found there way into all the nooks and cranny's working there way tight to the banks i am sure they caught a good number.

It started a bit quiet for us as drifted around in some rough water squalls and had my first fish as we anchored of the willow bay point. After a while we decided to move up to cotton end and with only a short anchor rope managed to hold just off the causeway tunnel with a great view under the road.


There were a few fish rising here and I decided to keep my two green Diawl bachs on the droppers but put a dry on the point to keep everything up. For an hour I had great sport. I had one fish on the dry which was really nice and must have been two pound.
The other fish were a bit smaller and took the green daiwl bachs maybe a foot or two down as they were slowly sinking through the water. I was trying to fish the dry and keep everything up and static and the line just shot off. Phil cottoned on quick and changed over but only managed a couple of takes and fish that hit him really hard and snapped at the dropper.

We persevered as the sun came out but the fish must have moved off down the bank or gone deeper and quiet.

With about an hour to go we headed for the boils and a quick waft of the Di5 and blobs just to make it feel that we had been working hard. I managed another on the first drift on the tequila blob. It was a nicely taken fish as it followed me up to the surface I let the fly sink back and it turned and took, nice!

Our discussion had turned to talk of phils averages this year and that a blank would help at all. However confident to the end Phil manged to hook into one just before the boils on our last drift, you can see the relief in his face and it was a nice end to a pleasant day.