Arrived around 3:00pm, was allowed to park by the pylon. Made me way to the Platform 2 in #4 and cast a team of buzzers under a bung. Wind was blowing nicely from behind (northerly), sky was overcast and the swifts were on the water and a few buzzers were taking off.
I saw a couple of rises, but no action, and ven tryed a booby and still nothing.
Made my way to the inlet and saw the odd fish rising. Cast my team on top of a few fish and waited thinking I was definately about too get a take, but nothing happened. Tryed all sorts of naturals on the fish's noses and still nish. Saw a massive carp take something of the surface.
Went on to the sinker / orange booby. As the booby was on the surface I got a pull and played the fish to the bank and saw the booby eyes sticking out of his mouth. Then.... Bollocks, not again, this was the 3rd fish in a row to come of this fly and line in the same location. Was desperate to get a fish to spoon for some clues. I fished here for a little while longer and thought I would give #5 a go. Got to the corner and spoke to a fellow angler, and he said only 1 fish had been caught on a ccats whisker and nothing had been showing. On my first cast a Comorant popped up in front of me, and I thought, sod this! I'm going back to the inlet on #4.
I stuck on a intermediate and an #10 ls orange rassler, cast it over the swirl and something boiled underneath it. I then stripped the fly back fast on the surface and the fish continued to chase and thrash at the fly. Then around 2 rod lengths out, it lunged and took the fly. Finally. Managed to bank a fish. The fly was right down in the stomach, and upon spooning the fish, it was full of large green daphnia.
I had 2 boils at full cast under the rasller.
Daphnia = Orange lure stripped quickly, dont even think about naturals, go for the aggresion.
That was the key! Ended up with 3 fish in about an hour and is started to get dark, the fish went down and the action stopped, left about 9:00.
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