Paul, Sorry you only caught one fish. I did well at Grafham and caught ten and our team of four caught 26 overall and finished joint 4th, which is a great result for us,without any practice,but see below. I caught mine on a slime line and all sorts of lures with the last one only taking a nymph. Successful patterns were white sparklers, damsels, black & green blobs and a pearly PTN. We stayed around B bouy with most boats around G bouy. Conditions were perfect overcast, and nice ripple.
Fish were on fry and daphnia - in fact the largest 3lb6oz had a perch & bream fry in him.
I fished Chew last week and blanked on two days - just when I was getting some good catches..
Some hints I can offer are:
1 Use fluorocarbon (6 to 8lb+) and NOT mono
2 Use a slime /clear glass intermediate
3 If you don't find fish keep moving
4 Sometimes its best to try away from over boats on a clear drift
5 Fish can be quite far awy from the shore eg around B bouy on that day
Neil.