Saturday 19th April, returned to Hawkridge Reservoir with the Brother-in-law for a days fishing from a boat this time. After signing in etc, back to vehicle to make up rods, gather gear, and head to boat pontoon, load equipment into boat, cast of and head towards dam end. Today the wind is blowing from the dam up to the input, and already there are three boats up there! in position put drogue over and prepare for our first drift, this takes us in a diagonal across the reservoir, halfway and b-i-law  is into a fish, finally, after a lot of faffing about it's netted, a lovely 3 lb 12 oz blue! in the excitement we nearly run aground, bring in drogue, and row back to dam end.
At times the wind was quite strong and also cold, in the next three hours we lose a couple of fish each, and i manage to land three. We now decide to come ashore for a warming coffee and food.
After lunch, and the wind has turned to blow straight down the reservoir, two hours and two fish later, we decide to call it a day.
We finished the day with 6 fish, one to B-i-Law, 5 to me.
As Arnie said " I shall return"

Yesterday, 3rd April, i decided to have a day at a stillwater fishery, the chosen venue being Hawkridge reservoir, near Spaxton.
The day started rather dull and grey with a slight breeze blowing from left to right.
Having duly paid my money, tackled up, it would appear that i was the only person on the reservoir! i had the whole place to myself, no looking for somewhere to fish from, just wherever i wanted.
I started fishing from just to the right of the boat pontoon, which was just in front of the lodge, second cast, tug? nothing, forth cast, another tug, nothing! a few casts later a fish on, a few seconds later, fish off!! then it happened again, check hook, that was ok, at last fish on, and successfully landed,  it then went quiet,no tugs, knocks, nothing, time to change the fly, remove black gold head, and replace with orange gold head.
I now moved to fish from the boat pontoon, thus giving me a bit more distance, to where fish were moving, bingo! first cast a fish! then all went slack, i hate losing fish! the air turned blue! 
However, after that the fish all managed to stay on and i caught my allowance.
Just as i was landing my last fish, another angler arrived, the first person i had seen since arriving at the fishery.
Tight lines to you all.