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Draycote 23/04/23

 Disappointing day for me at Draycote with nothing to show for 6 hours of effort.

View in the shop was North shore but try N buoy before the sailors got out (misheard that as M which basically summed up the day)

Started off DI3 and a mini cats whisker, drifted over M and nothing happening but there was the odd fish showing so changed to floater and a couple of buzzers to no avail 

Belatedly moved to N buoy and had a drift with the DI3 and a booby snake - I am determined to get a fish on one of these sometime this season but again nothing.

Decided to g back to my original plan prior to arriving which was Biggin Bay / Toft with Buzzers/Bung

Wind direction pushing away from the bank at Biggin andalso a lot of bank anglers so fished further out than I had hoped , drifted down without a touch but went round again to try the Bung with a similar result

Couple of drifts round toft with various lines/flies (10ft fast tip, DI5 sweep/floater+bung) all to no avail.

Back to Biggin Bay for a final drift through with floater and bung before called it a day at 15:00

Could easily have just got a 1/2 day given the time I was there but if I had been catching or even seeing plenty of moving fish I would probably have stayed.

Obviously still need plenty of practice and work out some methods that work for me

Every day is a learning day!!

Think I need to have less of a plan beforehand as I have noticed that I mainly pick out of the flies that I have put in my 'Day Box' whereas I think in some cases going to my main box and having a think may be better.

Day box looking like this = hard days fishing!!!








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