Fishing from the far bank I started with a floating line, twitching back a small gold head GRHE on the point, a red buzzer next up and a PTN on the dropper. To my surprise I was into a fish within about 15 minutes, the fish took the buzzer,probably about 7 - 8 feet down (right).
After that it was a fairly slow business until I missed a good thump fairly deep on the point fly, then got a savage take close in on the GRHE twenty minutes later to yield a second fish. Meanwhile Father had headed up the bank and caught two in quick succession fishing a Black and Peacock on a floating line. A couple of hours passed with not much doing and the after a brief spell of sunshine the weather refused to lighten up, so I changed to an intermediate, pulling a mini white booby on the point (felt a bit dirty), and a Zulu variant on the dropper. Was into a fish first cast on the point. so that seemed to work. Then on the third cast bang again and was into a another fish, which once I'd played it in a bit, turned out to be two fish, one on each fly! I must have just hit a pod of them and being early season, they were probably less wairy of lures, which everybody seems to drag in all day round there. So that was me, Father picked up one more fish but really by 3.30pm, it was colder, the fish were done for the day, so we were off home to the fire. A good day given the conditions, it seemed less a case of using a specific fly and more a case of being at the right depth and finding a pod of fish. The fish were all between two and three pounds, so seemed smaller than previous seasons at Clatworthy, but it was only one day so if I'm there again this season, we'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, I hear Roadford and Colliford have made a strong start, so look forward to getting down there as soon as I can.
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