First This Season

We had a lot of rain yesterday, so I decided that no matter what the weather today I would get up early and get out fishing. I awoke to glorious sunshine this morning at 5am. I had breakfast and then set off to Kentmere Tarn. I got to the tarn at about 6am and tackled up.
I started at the Western end of East Bay, casting to the rises that were in abundance. There was also a few jumpers just to let me know they were there. I had a take as soon as my first cast landed on the water. There were more takes and plenty of missed strikes for the first 30 minutes. It then seemed to die down with no signs of fly life or fish rising. I persisted with the small brown hopper for another 20 minutes with no success. I was beginning to think that it was going to be another blank trip, when the water erupted in fly life and the fish started to go berserk. Shortly after this I caught my first trout of the season, a handsome looking, fully finned Trout. I then headed home at about 7.30am, in time to take my Daughter and Son to school.