Flooded

We had seen it on the news with sandbags holding back the water from peoples houses but until you see the extent for your self it is difficult to comprehend. Although the River Test was on it's way down it was over it's banks in a few areas and flooding was still around, It was difficult to find a dry parking place! I am not sure how high it got but this cabin was a casualty. However with chesties on and kitted out we were ready for a bit of wading. It was not as bad as we thought and although it was pushing through it was still fairly clear and as usual you needed to be smart about where and how you fished - nothing new then. We started on the main river and had a great morning session catching some superb brownies and Phil a rainbow. We were using heavily weighted peeping caddis and you had to pick the slower parts of the river. The carriers were quite tricky and i couldn't quite get a method going although Phil was able to have a few fish on smaller pink shrimps. It was Grayling we went for and finally on the last afternoon up on the top beat i was able to roll cast along the tree line and pick up another four fish that appeared not to have been spooked. The second of these as a really nice grayling well over a pound that fought great on my 4 weight in a fast current. Another magic couple of days!