First trip of the new season and what a start! Fishing in our club competition I started off on the old green bank at the top of Hook Straight. Regulars of Bewl will remember "Flo " who used to fish here a lot of the early season, I still chuckle at the memory of her berating an angler for throwing his fag packet over the side. Anyway, the fish were hard on the banks and with a slime line set up with four flies, a peach blob on the top dropper, two size 12 cormorants and a viva on the point I quickly got into fish and had four in the first 30 minutes. These were all smallish stockies but superfit and in great condition. It went dead for 45 minute before a change from the viva to a booby on the point resulted in a further four fish from just under the surface. I took two at once which was exciting for a while, luckily the both ran in the same direction and I was able to net the top fish and unhook it before landing the fish on the point fly more conventionaly. My boat partner got to 7 by lunch. We stopped and chatted as a group and I was surprised to find that the others had not done so well with only Russell having got 6 fish. After lunch the flotilla followed us back to our drifts and there was an ugly moment as Russell brought his boat in too close as Mark hooked a big fish. In trying to stop it running under Russell's boat he managed to break it off and was not even a little bit happy. Thankfully he immediately hooked another fish and finished off his limit.