My second visit to Chew Valley Reservoir, this time with my friend John who I had met at Blagdon Reservoir a number of times. The weather was baking hot, great for sunbathing but not conducive to fishing. Despite seeing some fish moving, including what I suspect was a very large Pike, that morning we didn’t get a touch in any of the spots we tried. There were many boats on the Reservoir, mostly practising for the competition the next day but despite the presence of plenty of highly skilled fisherman (not included myself in that!), we only saw one fish caught and heard of one other. It wasn’t until the sun was setting before we got wind of some fish finally being caught, right on the other side of the Reservoir! It wasn’t a hard decision to up anchor and motor over there as quickly as possible. It was immediately obvious that this was the place to be as there were fish beginning to rise all over. Although it was tremendously exciting, the fishing was surprisingly difficult. John did very well and managed to tempt two but it wasn’t to be for me and I ended the day on a blank. Chew can be magnificent when it’s fishing well but by god it’s hard when it’s not! Oh well, those hard days only serve to make you evaluate how to improve your fishing so I’m sure I will be back at some point to have another crack at Chew.