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Again saw us down at Thorpe Vale near Binbrook. Again a lovely evening as we arrived at the lake at 4pm. Possibly not quite as sunny and a little colder than our last few visits but still nice all the same. Just Me and Gaz this time and we suffered a slow start. No fish in the first hour. I’d had a couple of casts and wasn’t happy with my leader so I cast out and put the rod down while I assembled a new one. Usual story, massive take, line goes screeming off but the fish didn’t hook itself and because I didn’t have the rod in my hand I missed it. That was the only action in the first hour.

Things did pick up though, and with a few fish rising Gaz stuck a daddy long legs on, fished it on the surface, and got the first fish of the day.

Gaz into the 1st fish of the evening.

It was a lovely long fish that would have weighed around 3lb, but it was a female that had just spawned and as such had a skinny, empty belly.

Gaz’s 1st fish.

Things picked up rapidly and the newts wasn’t far behind with his first either.

newts trying to dodge the lilly pads.

It was quicly 2 each and then things slowed down for an hour. Not wishing to waste any of the precious evening while the fishing was slow I had my 30 minute commune with nature when I spotted this gorgeous big Alder fly.

Alder fly.

It was only later on when I swopped my black buzzer for a home tied red buzzer that the fish took off again. I landed one close to 3lb, similar to Gaz’s but with more of a belly, and then several after that all falling to the red buzzer.

Another thouroughly enjoyable evening and at 8:45pm when we packed up the final scores where:

newts 8 : Gaz 3