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Draycote 23/07/22

 Morning boat booked so up bright and early to get there for an 8:30 kickoff Wind SE and about 6 with gusts of 13/14 increasing to 10 and 17 later in the day means blowing away from rainbow corner and sort of frm B to C/Y Plan Start F-G with sink tip and booby with damsel nymph Up to B DI 7 single blob / unweighted damsel/ weighted damsel Stay near B and bung at 5 and 10 ft Floater D-E and/or F-G with buzzers and Diawl Bachs Started off quite calm so down to Toft and try drifting between F and G, no drogue as calm enough without. 10ft sink tip, damsel booby (10) and green damsel nymph. Keeps drifting in to shore so have to keep manouvering away from the shore (pleased not to have the drogue out), after 20 mins change the dropper to a cat cormorant. First fish in the bag by 09:20 and happy with the day so far. Wind getting up and having to manouvere more often so (foolishly with hindsight) decide that instead of starting another drift down here will go to next part of plan and ...