Fish Wives – Fishing Report: Western Court 15th May 2013
Weather:
The weather was overcast, with a few heavy showers, a little wind at times.
Water:
Not very clear but we did see fish in all three lakes.
Who Fished:
Becky Frost (Photographer) Teta Crowe & Tracy
Western Court is another good fishery for ladies. They have a large well equipped fishing hut with outside bbq and table and there is a WC .
Fish Wives – Ladies who like to go Fly Fishing
On arrival Becky and Tracy had a cup of coffee and biscuits, then walked around the three lakes. With Polaroid’s on we saw fish in all the three lakes and several families of geese with goslings of different ages. It was cold and we had to wrap up well but we set to with a one to one lesson on the top lake in front of the fishing hut. Becky grasped the basics of the roll cast and improved here overhead cast. We began fishing on the middle lake with Becky using a Green Montana and Tracy a Red Montana which proved to be the fly of the day. Tracy hooked two fish in quick succession, handing the rod to Becky to play the first fish, the second fish Becky landed with the net, all good learning. Exchanging rods, Becky was soon into her first fish with the Red Montana. She successfully played the fish until it tired then landed it. At that time Teta arrived and took over Tracy’s rod. A quick lesson to improve the overhead cast and Teta was fishing. Becky caught her second fish and then moved onto the bottom lake, where she caught her third fish. Teta took over the killer Red Montana and after hooking a tree, was into her first fish, which she landed and despatched herself. Very soon afterwards Teta landed her second fish and as Tracy had also taken a third fish, we decided to retire for for lunch. Tracy provided the usual salad for lunch, with sliced cheeses, salami, home cooked ham and hard boiled eggs, coleslaw and a good hot mushroom soup with home-made bread. Coffee, tea, orange juice and water were available all day. There was a lemon drizzle cake eaten for desert as we were not going to be there for tea. Tracy forgot the plates but we managed!
Following lunch Teta was challenged to catch a 6lb fish out of the top lake. She landed a very nice 2.5lb fish which completed our bag for the day. All fish were good specimens with no damage and weighed about one and a half to two pounds.
Many thanks to Toby Coles, for permitting us to use Western Court for the day and look forward to the 28th May when we will be back with more Fish Wives.
Becky Frost has the photographs on http://rebeccafrostphotography.com
Jamie Butler at Meon Springs is posting our fishing reports http://www.meonsprings.com/fly-fishing
Fish Wives now has a blog www.tracysfishwives.blogspot.co.uk
Future Dates:
Western Court Nr Alresford Tue 28th May;
Holbury Lakes Wed 19th June;
Meon Springs Wed 24th July.
There is a day available on the River Anton in early September for 4 Rods
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