sam vimes
Well-known member
Fishing for grayling in the lower Derwent is like herding cats. They live in slacks and eddies, take the bait 18” below where you fed it, throw themselves on the hook for half an hour, then get bored and disappear.
Welcome to my world. Keep at it and you find the joys of killing your swim by overfeeding them with just a few maggots too many (usual). Not being able to keep up with the amount of feed they seem to want (rather unusual). Not actually having enough bait with you on the rare occasion that they really want some feed. Even worse is feeding that tiny bit too heavily which just attracts the attention of the swim trashing spotty hooligans. Then there are the days that you can never find a consistent line, length and depth. They randomly flit around a swim and you spend all day chasing them through the possible dimensions.