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Frustrating Eyebrook

 Tried to get a boat at Draycote but they were full for the only day I could make it so off to Eyebrook again, at least I won't have to do battle with the sailing boats😊

Quick chat in the lodge revealed it had been fishing well to Buzzers but that temperature had dropped a bit due to rain the previous day

Wind blowing straight down the lake which should enable me to have a long drift

Started with 6ft slow tip with big orange FAB on the point and a couple of size 12 nymphs and essentially drifted down from Robbo's cabin, nothing doing and didn't see a fish so switched the FAB for a size 10 buzzer.

Still nothing and wind getting up a bit so switched to DI3 with a small orange FAB.

Little tug 3 casts in but nothing else

Thought I would try Sams Dyke and the point but rather frustratingly there was a line of 8 boats anchored up 30 - 40 yards offshore which made it next to impossible to drift anywhere near there, I really do find this quite annoying.

Started back up at Robbo's cabin, still on the DI3 and eventually after a lot of fly changes hooked into a decent fish on a black cormorant - hurrah, first fish 11:17.

DI3 and Cormy got me another 2 over the next 4 hours all drifting down from the Three Trees, a combination of increasingly squally wind, no fish showing and the inability to get anywhere near Sams Dyke to The Pens meant I called it a day just after 3.

So a pleasant enough day but really frustrated at essentially not being able to fish 1/2 of the lake as I would have wished due to people parking their boats 40 yards offshore.

Think that I need to rethink the strategy for future visits and park up myself rather than drift as my go to method, with the thought that if the fish are more spread out then I can get the drogue out and drift.

The advantage of parking up is that I can more easily explore different depths as the drifting of the boat will not dictate my speed of retrieve.

Hoping to get another visit in to either Eyebrook or Draycote over the next couple of weeks so see what the new tactics bring

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