SATURDAY21st October 2000

They are very competent people and we can manage without a deckhand. Beyond the drop-off I slow the Margarita, put the spread out and relax. The weather is hazy with a slow, long, oily swell from the west ; water 72.6. Jonno is inshore with Angullla, unhappily day-tripping for barracudas along the coast. At 10.55am…

In fact, all the coarse fish species can be caught on a fly. I had an instance last summer when I spotted a shoal of perch. But with no worms or spinners I thought all was lost in trying to catch those perch, then remembered that I did have a film canister in the waistcoat…

Following on from my previous article on “fly rodding for carp” here I intend to focus on the surface and subsurface tactics I have used in various circumstances to deceive fish – well, some of the time anyway!

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Many animals feel and show emotion, but human emotion is something else. This thought was uppermost recently when I was listening to some wonderful music, ridiculously emanating from a small plastic box. I cannot even recall what the piece was called, but it stirred me so much emotionally that there were tears in my eyes….

The water was very cold and clear, so much more like winter, with the end of the season now visible on the horizon now was the time to put some concentrated effort in, as I knew the carp would soon start moving and would be hungry. The winter on this lake had been a poor…