Final CFFC Taster Day 9/9/16

Today was our last taster day of the season, unfortunately several participants had to cancel for various reasons.

We only had one person today and that was Mark Clayton. Mark was given the usual safety briefing and then some casting tuition before we went out in the boat, the first challenge was negotiating through the dense patches of weed, so with Mark acting as lookout and guide we managed to get through and into deeper water between the two top islands. Colwick member Bill Richardson was already fishing and reported that he had a couple of pulls but had no fish.

Mark and I went up into brownie deeps where a few fish were showing so we anchored down and started fishing, all known methods were tried from Di3 sweep to Di5 sweep and di7 lines, nothing was taking or chasing the flies, we moved to several locations where we had seen fish jumping but we could not persuade the trout to take, so this was the theme for most of the day until around 2pm I decided to go back into brownie deeps and have another crack at those fish up there.

Bill was up there and told us that fish were moving close to the bank and weed beds, so we set up again.

The wind was moving the boat in all directions which made it difficult to cast and when we got a decent line out we could not reach the fish, again we lifted the anchor but this time we moved very slowly right up into the top corner where a number of trout were leaping, bingo, first fish on, a nice plump rainbow around 1lb 8oz, this was followed by a nice couple of brown trout which Mark landed.

Best fly was a flashback damsel which caught the brownies and the old faithful montady took the rainbow.