The day finally arrived, up early, made a flask of coffee (remembering the distinct lack of coffee from last time) and got there just before 8:30
D already there so quick coffee, bought ticket and loaded up boat, out on the water by 8:45
All the talk in the shop had been of sinking lines and that is what D started with (DI 3), I went with my original intention of floater with my intended 3 flies
Could not have worked out better , less than 1/2 an hour in and first fish in the boat to the booby on the middle dropper, hurrah!!
Lost another 2 in quick succession and D changed to floater with 10ft sink tip, booby on point and top dropper.
D soon started hitting fish and had a couple of occasions where he had 2 on (one on each Booby) I on the other hand had gone quiet, D boated 4 in quick succession (released 2).
Thought to myself that if the boobies were so popular then maybe I should change, still needed some weight on it I thought so:-
Middle - Pink Lure with Metal 'Eyes'
Top - Candy Floss Booby
Soon into another fish but somewhat surprisingly was to the pink lure not either of the Boobies
Finished the drift without any more excitement and decided to give Rainbow Corner a go as all other boats were basically drifting along the dam in the direction of J to T buoy
On our way to Rainbow Corner decided to chaneg flies a bit (not comfortable with 2 Boobies and a lure) and this is where I had a brain fade for a while
Point - Pink Lure
Middle - Red Cruncher
Top Candy Booby
Started fishing and very soon realised that having a big metal eyed lure and a nymph like fly on the same cast did not work for me, I always felt that at least one of the flies was not fishing correctly no matter what the retrieval was
Nothing happening for either of us as we mooched around A and C buoy so decided that if I wanted depth to the flies needed to change lines rather than put on combinations of flies I was uncomfortable with.
Put on a DI 3 and changed the fly combination to
Middle - Red Cruncher
Top - Candy Booby
Almost immediate effect, quickly hooked a fish around B Buoy, which I managed to land and then another from around C which I lost, both on the FAB
Nothing happening for D and he quite fancied going back to near the dam so with 4 in the bag I was more than happy to agree
Things just carried on for me, very soon into another fish and soon had 6 in the bag and debarbed my hooks to enable easier release
D in the meantime had switched to a DI 3 as well but not getting anything, chucked him one of the orange FAB's and he was almost immediately into a fish.
So full bag reached by mid afternoon.
D now starting to catch fish very regularly whereas me not so much, although was still hooking and losing a few
Later both of us getting fish near the surface to both the FAB and the Boobies and possibly should have switched lines again however very content with just plodding along, had a full bag and still getting regular (ish) fish, although losing as many as I landed.
Landed my last fish approx 17:00 which resulted in the mother of all tangles on my cast, decided not to bother trying to untangle it and couldn't be bothered to tie on another one so I just sat and waited for D.
Called it a day soon after and headed back, D had landed 14 me 10 and it was without a doubt the most productive days rservoir fishing I had ever had
Heading into the Winter in very good spirits
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