Hat catcher

It was blowing a gale on Pitsford today and not very pleasant at all. You could hardly control your line let alone your hat and when a gust of wind struck just as I turned my head - my hat was in the water and floating away. I didn't realise the extent of Phil's fishing abilities but after 3 or 4 casts he had the hat hooked and in the net - thanks Phil!


As for the proper fishing well there's not much to say really after drifting around all morning we managed just one take between us and I managed a decent 2 pounder from the edge of the weed banks just of rigby's point. It took a tecquila booby bobbling around on the surface.

Heres hoping for better fishing this week.

last minute call up

Sunday morning and I was just thinking of what to do for the day and the phone went. Mike had lost his partner for the day so an offer to fish Pitsford from the boat - magic!

I started as i left off at Grafham fishing the washing line and was really hoping that Daiwl backs or snatchers would start working. An early fish on the tequila booby proved me wrong but at least I was catching. The fish seemed to have all moved off the Dam and were heading towards the narrows - the key was to fish in the middle of no where out of Brixworth bay and across to the Pines.

The fish started to come up in the water as the day went on. There were pockets of fish but those were moving around. Mike put on a woofta booby and was then catching great. It was like fishing muddlers bubbling through the waves and the big bow wave behind - great sport.

The difference for me was when I changed to a slow glass with a woofta booby on the point and a tequila FAB on the top dropper with a hopper in the middle. I this it eliminated any line disturbance and all three flies were on the surface.

I never looked back and had some great sport.

The Floating line

The MNTFA put in two teams for the Inter Club Floating line competition at the weekend and I made up one of the places.

Congratulations to a team from Invicta who won on the day. It was a hard day as the fish were very tightly shoaled and difficult to catch. Having said that as usual 3 people managed to bag up but with 5 fish I must have been up there shouting.

My partner was Ystlyn Smith from GWFFA and although he had not done much competition fishing before he was good company and did great with 3 fish and above average on the day.

We managed to find a very small shoal between the nature reserve and L buoy and with 5 drifts over a tight shoal we managed 5 fish. With 3 fish too on one of the last drifts of the day off W buoy, it was hard going for the rest of the day.

I was using a washing line with a tequila booby on the point and two diawl bachs on the droppers. It was like fishing a dry fly as they came up and took the booby off the top - shocking!

With Ash, Powie and John in the team too we managed 10 fish between us but no prizes!