Unfortunately the weather in the preceding days rendered the Laver too high to fish, so after a couple of phone calls, the Easter trip was abandoned, and Luke & I decided that we’d still manage to get some fishing in at the above mentioned lake.

I’ve never fished here before, Luke has only once, but there are landlocked salmon and a good populance of fully finned rainbows.

We arrived at 10ish or so and stocked up on the local flies (damsel nymph and some buzzers) before wandering off along the shore looking for a good spot to cast.

There were very few fish rising, but the local pond lads were catching fish without too much bother. If only we knew what they were doing! I hadn’t even had a rise, whilst Luke had two rises, and two snapped leaders. The flourocarbon tippet material he had been praising during the car journey was perhaps not that good after all.

Anyway, later on in the afternoon, I finally felt a fish take my point fly, and after a nice fight on my 7 foot rod, the 2 lb rainbow was beached and brought before the priest.