Friday 27 July 2012

A perfect evening for fishing, but not catching....


Sometimes it just doesn't matter; how can you complain when the company is good, the weather benign, the conditions perfect, but the fish absent?

It's Bewl; it's the way it is; the reservoir is a favourite venue, but, for Harry and I, it gives up its fish reluctantly.

Bewl has introduced an "Any Methods" policy. Why, I don't know, perhaps the season's dampness has caused a drought of hardy, all-weather anglers; perhaps the Bewl water powers that be have changed a decades long ethos in favour of an elite clientelle, to an all encompassing, catch-all product brought about by the contemporary fad to dumb down as much as possible as often as possible. Maybe.


Anyway, be that as it may, Harry and I couldn't shift a fish. They were rising later in the evening but neither he nor I had a single take on the fly. Now, we're not by any means experts here, but not to have even a touch is very, very strange. We tried up until 8.45 and we tried just about everything. But it was such a wonderful afternoon and evening that we couldn't complain too much.....could we....?