Author: unfamous

In the company of Damsels

It’s a call out weekend so fishing choices are limited by phone and pager. I went up to Pendreich on what looked like a perfect fishing afternoon. Breezy enough to create a little wave, bright but not glaringly so, and reasonably warm but not roasting. Surely the fish would be on the top and feeding.

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Blowing at Burnhouse

As its the last day of my holidays I wanted to get out. The day started fair but the wind rose and it got quite grey with low cloud over the hills above Stirling. So Pendreich was out, and my second thought of Orchill would be wet too in all probability. Not been to Burnhouse for a while and it was away from the direction of the rain so I went there for 4 hours C&R.

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The Hook-Bender Persuivant

The CDC and Deer hair wasn’t getting a reaction and I went down sizes of fly until I got to a size 18 F Fly. This got me a follow it seemed as I retrieved the fly in wet – I never saw the fish but I had an arm wrenching tug and the line pinged from the water, fly less. The 4lb line had snapped at the fly.

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