Bushy Leaze
Middle of March and the first competition of the season, it was a low key well mannered affair with a good turn out of eighteen at Bushy Leaze. The twenty two acre lake looked perfect for fishing, with fish rising all over, taking buzzers sub surface. The sky was overcast and a gentle breeze provided the push for the water to ripple.
One or two characters turned up, one chap in his camper van with a bucket full of cray fish caught in the Thames, another with an incredible multicoloured Peruvian hat, thankfully fish have taste and he failed to catch his four fish that day.
Most caught fish quickly catching them on buzzers, blobs and cats whisker. The fish here fight well and average two to three pounds, with one or two lumps in there, one lad caught a five pound rainbow in great condition.
I caught my four fish by fourteen hundred so I had a couple of hours to kill, along with a good few others, giving military men a few hours with nothing to do is always dangerous, but we happily filled it by finding team mates and giving them helpful advice, such as change to a brighter coloured fishing line, standing on one leg, removing the hook to be more sporting. As you can see from the photo Neil found our help useful, I am sure he meant to say thank you guys but some how it came out as '**** off'
Others found amusement in collecting tree flies, the photo is of Tug collecting from a prime fly tree next to the boat deck.
Two guys were fishing from float tubes, this looks great fun and certainly catches fish in some order, I suppose that, in effect it is trolling for trout which always works.
If you fancy fishing in this excellent fishery their web site is www.lechladetrout.co.uk
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