As much as people keep saying Pitsford is better off the bank at this time of year I really fancied a morning afloat. If nothing else I have a few competitions coming up and needed to get my boat box organised.
It was the Royal Wedding today and while I don't have any great aversions it all seems so commercialised and sensationalised through the media that I thought the highlights would suit me fine. When we arrived the water was heaving with "grumpy old men" just like me. Well, some of them were a bit older!
We started in the small half as a few fish had been stocked there last week, Phil on the nymphs and me on the lures. I had a take and the fly was clean off - must have been a Pike! and Phil managed a cracking fish of around three pound with a lovely tail and must have been overwintered. His orange cheeked black buzzer doing the damage. We persevered for a while without further success and then started off on a site seeing trip around the water.
In a cold wind we struggled to find any more fish and settled at anchor on Sailing club bank. There were a number of bankies bagging up on the point into the bay on what seemed to be a tight shoal of stockies. Well they must have been tight as they didn't come out to us!
The cobwebs blown off, drogue wet and my box organised, I was ready to face the wedding highlights on the telly. How nice it was that they managed to do it exactly how they wanted and keep a few secrets too.
Not sure where their honeymoon is but if there planning on Pitsford i would recommend leaving it for a couple of weeks until the fish start feeding again!
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