A Day in Glorious Sunshine

I took my son who is 8 to Moss Eccles Tarn today. I thought I would start to teach him the art of fly-fishing. We arrived at the car park, which is a good 20-minute walk from the tarn at about 10.30am. We tackled up and headed to the tarn. It is a nice walk along farm tracks, passing by the cow sheds on the way, with great views back towards Hilltop, where Beatrix Potter wrote the majority of the Peter Rabbit storybooks. On reaching the tarn we decided to start fishing at the Southern end as the wind was blowing from that direction, which would help me when teaching my son. I am not an expert fly fisher by any stretch of the imagination, but found I was enjoying teaching my son as you could see he was enjoying the experience due to the large grin on his face. I have to admit that I blanked again. I put this down to various factors including the brilliant sunshine, my lack of concentration on the actual fishing due to teaching my son, and not using the flies that the fish were feeding on. Having said all that there was plenty of rises with a few deciding that a quick jump in the air just to poke fun at me was the order of the day. Still a very enjoyable and rewarding day, despite the lack of fish.