England 2013
In the first week of May, I took group of my five friends to the traditional trip to England, we headed again to our favourite reservoirs in Midlands. We flew from Prague to London Luton airport, which is ideal for our trips, as the WizzAir allows 32 kg baggage, airport is small and located about 1,5 hours driving from Eyebrook reservoir.
In the Car hire park we get Škoda Fabia and Škoda Octavia 
We stayed again in Great Easton B&B at Elaine and David Hankey. After our evening arrival, we met Julie and John Emerson at Eyebrook lodge to get actual info about fishing and after we welcomed with our lovely hosts, we went to pub to support local business. I love English Bitter.
First day, after the full English breakfast, we fished Grapham, although I fish Lipno reservoir in Czech which has 4000 hectares, Grapham is for me water which deserve respect. Air was full of small buzzers, water was clear, surface was full of nice ripples, what more could we ask for. The key was to get black buzzers to the depth of 5-6 metres, we anchored in several places along the north shore and we get fish in all of them, we caught over 40 fish altogether and it was great start of the trip. I also get fish on new blob which I got from John. So we had a lot of experiences to talk about in the pub.
Second day we headed to Draycote. The day started with humorous skit when Lukáš equipped by new navigation overtook leadership of our group and in the very first crossroads turned to the left instead of to the right and drove to the right side of street instead of the left side. They stopped at first lights in front of cars in the opposite and after “short non verbal communication” directed to the right left side of the street Water in Draycote was relatively green and it was difficult to find fish, the choice of the place was absolutely essential, Peter and Paul were sitting in one boat and they were fishing same line, same leader and same flies and after 2 hours was score 15:6 for Peter who was sitting in the site close to the bank. It was possible to catch fish everywhere, but frequency of takes was significantly higher in the right distance from bank, we got fish also just under the banks. The second important thing was to keep flies absolutely static. The selection of flies was less important, everything with red-holo pattern was good. The most amazing surprise was waiting for us in the late afternoon when the wind dropped down and overwintered fish were rising through the flat surface everywhere but we were not able to catch them. But it is fishing. We finished the trip with “Fish & chips” in a Fish-bar in Rugby and few beers in Great Easton.
Third day we visited Ravensthorpe with John and Ben, it was simply amazing, crystal clear water, nice ripples, cloudy sky and fish taking both nymphs and lures, we enjoyed static nymphing from drifting boats (John is great teacher and I found, that in this technique is any detail in the construction of leader important as well as quality floating line) and also pulling lures, we caught over 150 fish including some browns, pike and also 8lb rainbow. Well done Anglian Water.
Last two days we spent in Eyebrook, lovely heavy stocked fishery with friendly staff never disappoint you, hatch of buzzers and a little green and heating water lifted fish up and we enjoyed nymphing with light flies, washing line method and also pulling on glass lines. Relatively high fishing pressure resulted in a little higher precaution of fish and I estimated that we had 50 percent success rate of strikes.
I guess we caught in five days about 250 fish and we are looking forward to next year.
