Earl Season days

Strange part of the year . It starts of with unbridled enthusiasm for the first day . Then that is usually followed by shitty weather , overflowing rivers freezing winds , this year we had things the other way around although the enthusiasm was still there but strangely tempered . We had very low rivers bright sunshine and cold days. Truth is its been hard . My fishing mojo has changed, strange thing but the need to destress from work that drove me to the river bank.so many times has gone now . I will always fish and will always want too . But the drivers are different now. The urgency has gone . Strange thing this retirement how your priorities change . My early season usually heads the same way , desperation to catch on a dry fly which eventually downgrades to not blanking and accepting that early season fish tend to be looking down still and not looking up. The Hawthorn hatches and midges do stimulate some activity but nymphs remain the backstop. The hawthorn flies have been a bit…