Saturday 13th October

Not a bad day here, although a little on the cold side!
Nil wind, which makes a massive improvement from  yesterdays gale force winds.
The cooler weather is certainly kicking in and within the last week the trees have been shedding their leaves, leaving for a beautiful look to the fishery. See the brief video below.

Its not fishing too bad either!, Young Oliver Avis currently leading the way with 11 trout to a "black snake" which is basically a zonker strip tied onto a hook, so it wriggles and moves around like no other pattern currently available. A standard zonker has a similar action however...

Conditions today in video format, below, click to play.

Its coming to that time of year when large dark patterns work well, black fritz, black tadpole, olive fritz etc.
All these patterns are worth a dabble, especially the black tadpole as this has caught alot of fishing over the previous week.

Today patterns for today

1. Black zonker snake.
2. Black & olive tadpole

UPDATE:
Top rod  Oliver Avis with 11 trout to his net to a black snake pattern, most anglers coming away with at least 3 fish to their net, the trout seemed to have really switched on within the last 2 days due to the sudden drop in temp, almost kicking in a natural feeding instinct before winter.

Tightlines,

Nathan Jones

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