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I went off to Frensham Trout Fishery in the afternoon. I started fishing in the large lake. The picture is all the flies I tried (all home made), everything above the rule produced no response whatsoever. The flies in the centre are bloodworms and I was hoping that these would have produced some sort of response but absolutely nothing whatsoever (trout are meant to adore these). These were the first three flies I tried.

I then tried the Klinkhammer, the top fly on the left, this is a dry fly but the hook is subsurface. It is a good visible fly for the angler, then I tried the fly top right. I moved to the small lake and tried it again with Klinkhammer. I then changed to the dry fly bottom left, this was the first fly to get a response. The fish unfortunately did not take it, this happened several times. I then swapped to the fly second from the left. This one is made purely from natural CDC feathers. These are from the around the oil glands of a duck and are very resistant to water, the flies produced from these float extremely well. This fly produced an immediate response but again it was not taken, the fish just rolled on it. This happened several more times. Then no more.

I moved to the bottom lake,. The dry CDC was not even looked at here. I tried the two flies on the right, above the rule. Again no response. I decided to move back to the large lake, I still had the nymph on (bottom one of the three on the right), again nothing.

As it was getting late, I decided as a last resort to try the Hairy Mary, on the right below the rule, a salmon fly. A response, what a response, first cast a fish on, which fought very well, and took a little time to land. Once unhooked, I cast out again same fly, wow, another fish on. Two casts two fish, almost unheard of. This was a larger of the two. I tried again several times but nothing more. I was starting to get dark and so I packed up Total weight of fish caught was 6Lb 12ozs.