Sat 20/11/2010

Waking to find frost on my car window this morning i was not in any hurry to get up knott I finally pulled onto the car park about 12.30.

Getting out of the car the first thing to greet me was a Dung Fly as it settled onto my jacket was that a lucky omen,not in any hurrry to fish i looked over the style for any rising fish i could see a few fish topping

On went my trusty Dung Fly and approaching the water I started casting at the odd rising fish, first fish was this 18 1/2 inch   (see below) i had another one as well.

In winter its all about picking your day and your time as a rule of thumb i fish the warmest part of the day (10 am to 3 pm) the fish are still rising to dry flys and when i booked out i noticed Dave Helm has been catching on Dung Flys and Beetles

Give it a go you might be pleasently suprised but one tip wrap up well.

Knott Sunday 7th Novenber

With the weather set  fair I decided to have a few hours on knott. Pulling onto the car park I could see a few fish topping.

I set up a long leader and crept over the stile and sat and watched the fish for a while. After 10 mins on went a size 16 shipmans buzzer as the fish were in the clear shallow water, not the easiest place to try and cast a fly to. Creeping near the water I could just make out 2 fish making their way toward me. I cast out and it landed about 5 feet in front of the fish. Up came the fish and sucked the fly down,  I tightened into it and it was soon brought to hand and released.

After my mate Greg phoned me, he appeared 15 minutes later to fish for an hour and a half. I noticed a few dung flies around on the grass buzzing around. So on went a CDC dung fly - first cast and another brownie had come to hand. A frantic 30 mins later and another 4 trout had fallen to the dung fly and as is the way of  these things as quick as the action had started it all went quiet again. During this time Greg got into the act netting 2 brownies himself on a Dung Fly.

If you pick your day and the weather's with you then look forward to some good sport on the tarn. Remember this year it's open till 30th December.



Greg returns a nice brown trout