 On the 18th of March the headlines this morning the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv has come under Russian missile attack. In this video I am fly fishing from my kayak at Wimbledon Lake which is nestled in the beautiful peaceful setting of Expo National Park. It's my first proper fishing trip with the kayak this year and I'm joining my fishing buddy Ian. The venue has gained a reputation for fish that really pull and that's no exaggeration. I teach people to fish for a living and separate work from play by making my own fishing a little bit different and difficult for myself. On my first visit I just wanted to catch a fish on a dry fly by the tide myself. Then it was a case of wanting to catch on traditional wet flies, a technique I hadn't done before. And on my third trip I just desperately wanted to catch one of the wild ground trout using natural nymph patterns. It keeps my fishing interesting having these little challenges and it was all going really well until my very last visit. I met up with blogger and angling journalist Dominic Garnett. My aim was to just catch on teams of buzzers, washing line style but I caught nothing and I had to watch on as Dominic called fish after fish after fish on his kennec killer fly despite my terrible letting efforts. A link to Dominic's blog is in the description. I'm a fly fishing idiot. Last summer I was there, I blanked and today I've overslept by an hour. I'm going to try and catch a trout today using a lie that my kids have made. I meet up with Ian and get on to the water to find him playing with his new toy, the Hoby Lynx. On top of that is attached an anchor pole. Might be handy. Once we're all set up to go we head down to Bessam's bridge. On this occasion I decide to take my six weight floating line with the single aim of trying to catch a trout, a fly is tied by my children. There's very few places that I can fish at where you don't hear traffic or aeroplanes or people. I think that's why I love it here so much. So the first fly to go on is going to be the youngest first, I want to put phrases on. Not sure what it looks like, I'm not trying to fish like a lure I think, like a reverse Montana isn't it, back at the front for you at the back. The challenges of fly fishing from the kayak is that for one you're sat down or stood up and secondly the kayak is quite light and can spin round in even the lightest of breezes. On previous trips I've tried to take other rods with other lines on, the problem with that is that you can quite often get in the way when you're trying to adjust your positioning mid cast so it really pays off just taking the one rod. I'm using a six weight rod with a floating line and to start off with I've added a six foot sinking tip and I'm fishing in about 10 foot of water after about half an hour of trying without any signs of fish I'll finally see a fish rise so I decide to take off the sink tip and cover it. It took me a while but I've finally hooked one. On phrases fly, it's a nice fish, these fish are so strong as you can see it's spinning my kayak around 360 degrees. How cool is that catching on phrases fly? Well done son. Six year old's fly, not a lot of help. Make yourself knocked down. Time with him, so precious. It's a pretty man. Yeah, metal bits, let's go underneath all the way around, under. I see a good boy. Let's go fishing, see if we have to win. I think we should. Big old fish. I actually thought I was going to blank today, don't know why. I'm going to dispatch it first, it's only right. He's dead. There's the fly in his mouth. The size of that mouth. Look at his phrases fly. It's a steam looking fish actually. You have to hand it to Mark Underhill and his team because that is last. See if I can get another. One flows fly this time. She chose all the components. Got a dumbbell on the front, a couple of J-wings and some hen-hackle around the front. Not quite sure what it's meant to be on the tape but it looks cool. It's all slightly, slightly sad to get it slimy or ruined by fish teeth but I think she'll be pleased if I caught on it. I imagine this is going to sink like a brick. Sinking like a brick. That's going to be stripped back really quick. It's funny some of the commotion can bring them in especially the stockies that are used to food fights when the pellets go in. They're quite inquisitive. You won't see it because of the surface reflection but the water clarity at Wimble Ball is extraordinary. And after a while I spot one or two fish. I followed it right up to the rod tip. Saw me and then turned. I got a bit excited. Yeah. On the Fraser fly, yeah. I was hauling and I hauled the reel instead of the line. How you got on? I'm stalking them over here. Sorry? You could be stalking them over here. Oh really? Yeah. It's quite cold over that other side. Yeah I thought, I did think what on earth were you doing all the way over there in the wind. On the Flows fly, what a result. Sorry Flows, this one's smaller. Not only did I lose the fish but the fly got destroyed as well. So we headed off to the Upton arm. Why is it another end of the vessel fly? To see if we can find some brown trout. I was joined here because I think he's got a brown trout on. He's certainly playing it more gingerly than he would a rainbow I reckon. Have you seen it yet here? It's strapping like a brownie isn't it? Is it a rainbow? Some good bent in your rod isn't it? Is he in the net? Yeah. Cool. Well done. What's that tree? You're right next to it. Oh yeah. That's a cracker. That's alright isn't it? Yeah. That's wicked. I'm well gel mate, well gel. Then there's a gust of wind and this happens. Sorry you know, all help is abandoned. Get your pole down. So if you want to see Ian's fish, you'll have to check out his YouTube channel. Right, no fanning around with cameras. I'm absolutely certain this is a brown trout. He will not let up. It's his rainbow. It's all that. It fought so much harder than the last one, but it's about two thirds of the size, probably half the size even. I'll tell you what. He's not dead, he's just faking it. My knuckle. I've got a kneecap now. It's like the butcher of Seville. It's a crap. I think he's dead. You reckon? It's a crap priest. Right, you ready for your picture, sir? Yes. Thanks very much. That's all right. Absolutely convinced that as brownie. It was giving such a good account for itself. What was that one, Charlie? That was on a gold ribbed tears here. When I was, it was static. Wasn't it hard drifting around to take a photo of your brownie? So after all that, it turned out to be a rainbow. About half the size, probably, the last one I caught, but it fought about three times stronger. Up to Narm is normally a very sheltered part of the reservoir, but when there's an easterly wind like there was on this day, it really blows through. So I set up my drogue and did a steady drift, which allowed me to fish the nymph along the bottom very slowly. With the pedal fins, drogue and the rudder as a potential snag, I'm brewing this fish quite hard. I'm staying deep. I won't pretend that I wasn't disappointed but I lost that fish, but I was on a two fish limit, took it, and it was due to be released anyway. Sounding funny around with a camera. Yeah, and I saw it right. He chucked one. It is a good fish. It's good to strengthen the wrist. It's not a brain, but it's got funny marks on it. Eee, well done. Are you bashing this one? Can I get it on camera? Does it tug on anything in its stomach? Just that tiny little buzzes, but not a lot. You should use spooning as a tag word in your videos, because it has sexual connotations. When I did a video on whips, I got loads and loads of interest. It was really funny, exactly, yeah. Well done. Was that on your cove? Yeah, it was on the cove, yeah. And that was that. A lovely day out. 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