Firstly I must apologise for being so behind in blog entries - I have been quite busy and was also away for the past month. I'm determined to catch up however so here's the start of many more to come...!

This weekend had been allocated towards a fishing trip in Wales which I had been looking forward to all week. Sadly and annoyingly, the deluge that we had towards the end of the week put an end to that plan as most of the rivers in the area were rising quite rapidly. Instead I decided to have a repeat of the fishing weekend I spend with my fishing pal Alan back in July (see 03-04/07/2010).

Saturday was spent on the LRA and turned out to be my most productive day yet – 10 WBT and 7 Grayling. What made the day exceptional was that 4 of the WBT were over 1lb! I count myself lucky to get one over 1lb in a day’s fishing so to get 4 from only 7 fish was quite exceptional. The Grayling were mostly small with the odd one to near a pound. Every time I fish this river I get to know it that bit better and that is certainly reflected in my catch return.

Sunday on the Wylye was both enjoyable and frustrating. Enjoyable to be able to fish this lovely stretch and have it all to myself. Frustrating because my flies were visibly ignored by so many Grayling which for some reason were being very fussy. Even the one’s I targeted on the dry fly seemed to miss the fly (at least that’s my excuse, in reality I probably wasn’t quick enough to strike)! Even more frustrating was losing two really good fish, one a large BT which shocked me when it charged away from me taking line of the reel before I attempted to slow it down and the hook pulled. The second was a very good Grayling, it stayed deep but allowed me to catch a glimpse of it looking like a large dark mini submarine before once again the hook pulled! Oh well, it was just one of those days, my final tally was 8 BT and 4 Grayling. The BT were of an excellent size with 6 over a pound in weight.