I spent the week with the family camping in the Lake District . We stopped on a site called Hill of Oaks which enabled us to pitch up the caravan 12ft from the lake in a beautiful oak wood. It also meant I could take a small portable fishing boat, leave it moored up on the lake side – perfect!
I'd packed my fly and spinning rod with high expectations of catching perch, pike and with any luck a small brownie.
The boating was great, the fishing not so. I tried everything from small spinners, to large sinking lures trolled behind the boat, mornings and evenings with only a modest perch of about 1 - 1 1/2 pound to show for my efforts. I did put in a lot of practice with the fly rod perfecting my cast, but again, nothing took. It was the first time I had seen small shoals of perch hunting in the clear waters and have to say it more than made up for the poor bag. Had I switched to maggot on a float I am sure I would have bagged up.
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