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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  DI7 from B buoy

Good long drifts from B along to between C and Y but despite varying sunking time/retrieves and flies did not touch a thing in 2.5 hours (really should have abandoned after an hour rather than persisting with the plan which was totry different types/weights of flies)

12 ish decided to change tack - plan called for bung but feeling lazy and couldn't be bothered to chaneg the cast to 3 flies and different spacign so went for dry flies instead, starting in rainbow corner

There were a couple of fish moving and missed one take early on but nothing after that, Biggin Bay has been empty all day so decide to motor over there.

Soon becomes apparent why Biggin Bay is empty as it is absolutley chocka with weeds so soon move round the corener to drift from X through to G

Wind has got up so nowhere near as pleasant an experience as this morning and did not have the enthusiasm to seek more shelter so having neither seen nor touched any more decided to call it a day at 13:45

Back at the pontoon it transpired that 2 of the staff had been out that moring, one fishing right into the shore with a floater = 5 fish, one fast sinks around BCY = no fish

Lessons Learnt

Plan should be more general as opposed to having times in it, should use method for max 60 mins unless catching, if catching stay where you are catching and possibly try different methods there rather than go to the other end of the reservoir and try a completely new method!!

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