As usual the weather did us no favours for the first few weeks with catch returns well down. Things have picked up well with this bit of warmer weather last week as indicated in Al's blog. The last week or so has seen rod averages of about 4 with people catching on a variety of flies. There have been some tremendous hatches of black buzzers, mainly smallish size 14 and 16 hook imitations, but some bigger getting on for 10's. As usual at this time of year they are predominantly black. Similarly the terrestials that will be making an appearance will also be black - Hawthorn flies, black gnats and beetles. We should also be seeing the early variety of daddy longlegs, in this case brown or fawn. The advice therefore is to keep an eye on the returns book and again look around. Thanks to all who fill in the details -it helps everyone. Just a word about the tagged fish this season - beware, there are some stonkers!
Dave H.
