Spring Sun – Check!
Decorating chores partly complete – Check!
Water at a good height – Check!
A full fly box – Check!
Non leaky waders – Check
Bank covered in empty cider bottles carried their in blue plastic bags – Check!
Regaled with stories of monster hatches of olives – Check!
Meet a guy on a Sunday with a beechcaster – Check!
Cast for an afternoon with a dry and dropper – Check!
Be regaled by a Kingfisher zooming past – Check!
Count 5 shopping trolleys – Check!
See some Olives (6) and get excited – Check!
Paul Reid shows up and forgets his rod – Check!
Catch fuck all – Check!
Classic! Remember, never trust the advice of a fisherman. We are all liars! YOu should have gone with option B (SP River) or C (Green beasts)……
I needed trout action – you seen good hatches on the SP river?
I have not seen a good hatch there since 2009!
I reckon that is linked to amount of trips!
I fished there more than anywhere last season I think, saw feck all!
However trout still rise to dries – there must be large dark olives at least?