Walthamstow - 21/09/07

Wow!

Turned up at 16:00 and went to the causeway, weather was a bit muggy and a mild warm wind blowing along the bank from the West. As I set up a group of fish were rising around half a fly line out.

I hastily set up and then it pissed down. I took shelter and when I came back the action began.

My set up was a Dial Bach on a dropper and Green CDC #15 on the point. Straight away I had action casting to rising fish.
I worked my way up the bank to the corner and had 6 fish all on the CDC. The first were targeted and the last 2 took blind.

The action lasted for around 1.5 hours then a cold wind came along with black cloud and the fish went of.

I had 2 more offers to the CDC, and switched tactics to 3 flies, CDC top droppper, with a GRHE middle and a buzzer on the point. I was hoping to fish bung style with the CDC as a float. This failed and the last 2 hours so no action at all!

Just when you think you have cracked it, the conditions change and the fishing responds so dramatically! Thats fishing!

6 - 0 -0

Walthamstow - Last couple of months August to September '07

There wasn't to much to write home about.

All in all, I tryed my new rod and broke it on its second or third visit. Although I did christen it with a rainbow on one occasion from #4 and the follwing visit a brown from #5.

I had 7 visits and only caught the 2 fish mentioned above. When I blanked, I completly blanked, meaning I did not even get a pull!

Both fish took a CDC buzzer.

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flyforums.co.uk - Forum meet at Farmoor 15/09/07

Had agreat time and only my 2nd visit this year to Farmoor 2.

My first ever social and a really nice day with a great bunch of people, and wicked BBQ done by the Pitsford Pirate.

The thread from flyforums is HERE.

My write up:

We had a great one.

Was really nice to meet all the bunch and catch up on the footy during the BBQ. Top man Stewart for giving my burgers extra time!

I know we were a bit unsociable being in a boat, and it was a shame we missed a lot of the crack.

We had a few fish in the afternoon on floating lines and found the fish only a couple of feet down even though there was bright sunshine, dial bachs, buzzers and silver invictas all taking fish. Most of the fish had been feeding on daphnia and small black buzzers.

Come 6:00 pm all hell broke loose, when the sun had dropped back. We went to start a new drift by number 4 buoy and noticed that there were a few rising and the closer we got to the buoy the more fish there were.We cut the engine and without a doubt there must have been at least 20 fish showing on the surface from then on at any one time.

As you saw one fish and you started to cast to it, all of a sudden another one would come up, then you'd change direction, then another..... Thing was I tangled a couple of times and it was unbelievable experience. Even cast out and had 3 flies hanging in the surface as one fish approached from the left, one from the right and my flies in between them and would have put my mortgage on a fish taken, but to my suprise nothing happened.They were on small black buzzers around a size 16, and believe it or not they prefered a sunk daddy to a size 16 black hopper.So it turned in to the 'Day of the daddies -part 2' for us, and I'm glad I tied a couple as they got plenty of action.

Shame we had to leave Mark (Starsky) on the bank till we left, and asuumed that he was getting similar action, but unfortunatley it didn't happen where he was.If I could I would have tryed to get back this evening!

Thanks for organising it Charlie, great day!

Me 10 Marco 11

Rod Completion!!!

I finally managed to finish the rod, bought a rod turner of ebay for £25 and this made the epoxy finishing a lot better. Also ordered a decal from Decal Connection in the States, took less than a week to arrive and ws under £3! I was really pleased with the finish of the rod, although I had a few 'fish eyes' on the decal as I must have got a bit of grease on it somehow. Contemplating trying to remove it and the epoxy and redoing the decal again. Dont know if it its possible.

Also bought a nice aluminium bar stock reel for it from China, less than £30 delivered, took about 10 days and have seen the exact reeel on a certain rod makers web site for £130, although it has a logo etched on it. CLF56 on ebay.

Down to the business of actually getting to cast it. Loaded up the reel on a saturday afternoon, and sat the apprehensive in front of the telly, itching like a junkie craving some scag. Mel finally looked over and said go on then.... That was it, got on the tube and within an hour was at last wetting the line on my new rod. Action was nice, although the rod made a bit of noice as due to the resistance of the line through the eyes. I think this may be due to the tiptop having quite a small diameter, will change this as it wont be to hard as I used hot melt glue.

Once the line was wet, it went out nicely, although I had to get used to the lighter line weight and the shorter rod.

After about an hour I christened it with a 2lb rainbow, and gave the rod a kiss!

Have used it about 2 times now and really liking it, can quite reguarlly cast all the line out to the backing. When i get a few quid together will look at getting another kit and making another one.

New Fisherman has joined the Family!

Welcome to Daniel Vincent King - Born 1st August 2007, weighing in at 8lb 1oz!