Out again on the same stretch as last time, but I thought I'd try something that could carry a little more weight to cast over the other side of the creases I'd previously fished, rather than trotting off the rod tip with a low weight-carrying Righyni style float.
The fish were no less keen once I'd got into a rhythm, first off using a cork-bodied alloy-stemmed Avon I'd made some time ago (slightly obscured under the caudal fin)...
However, the orange tip for me was still a problem. Admittedly I started with the float slightly over-shotted which obviously isn't going to help, but again even with a much-preferred dull-overcast outlook (as per the photo below)
...the orange tip was just getting too difficult to see further downstream, in what was a relatively minor surface disturbance.
Out with another float made a while ago, this time cork on a simple tapered hardwood stem, which has a luminous red tip, although it doesn't look like it in the following photo, it appears in the photo there's greater contrast against the dark red on the cork body...
This particular shot was the nice but out-of-season wild brownie that careered all over that particular swim, disturbing any resident grayling and rendering it seemingly devoid of any fish forcing me to move on. Here are the two floats in question...
Not that different in colour one would have thought, although it did go unnoticed by me at the time whilst re-rigging with the red-tipped float that the tip is a little larger too.
Anyways, enough rambling. Off to talk about a new club's waters tomorrow as the current club is relinquishing the rights to this particular stretch at the end of this season. I shan't be leaving the club as there are other fantastic stretches of river and some stillwater concessions that I'd like to retain, but unfortunately no other grayling stretches so I need to look at what other options are available locally for grayling, hopefully there'll be at least a day ticket to report on after tomorrow...
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