Helen bought me a Red Letter Day experience for wet fly fishing.

It was on a private lake near Winchester. The water was gin clear and it was a very hot June day.

Much of the day was devoted to instruction, both verbal and practical. I joined a novices group as I had had no real previous experience with a fly rod, but in the event I found I was quite adept, causing the instructor to say I was perhaps in the wrong group. Years of handling fishing rods obviously helped.

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When it came to the actual fishing it appears that the lake on the day was well below par. My casting was good but I lost a fish early on because I was a bit too forceful. After that it was difficult to get another take but I finally managed to land a rainbow trout.