Blagdon 22nd Aug

Hi all its been a while since I went out so took the opportunity to have an evening at Blagdon. As I arrived it rained so hard I couldn't get out of the landy for 15 minutes so I wasnt too hopeful of a good evening. I began in Butcombe bay and odd fish showed a long way out in the lake but there was no fly hatch. The lake was still at top level...unheard of in August in all my 25 years of fishing here, and the water was the temperature of a tepid bath...not good. However I persisted for a couple of hours and missed one good pull when my concentration wandered. Moved over to Cheddar water but nothing doing there so back to original

spot and managed a nice rainbow of 2.5lb on deep nymph, but as the sun set nothing at all moved. It rained monsoon-like again so went back to Cheddar for the last 10 minutes where got snapped off by a good fish and called it a night. Got soaked again as packed up ha ha!