A great wee blog post this week on the Tamanawis Blog: A Glossary of fishing terms by the apparently recently married wife of the Blogger Mike Tamaniwis. Some very apt observations, I especially liked the one about Fishing Magazines.
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Ok a wee bit more. Two touches all afternoon, on small lures, otherwise nothing on Nymphs or Buzzers. Had a couple of half hearted sniffs at a dry fly ( I was fishing the buzzers under a sedge pattern) but I think these were probably small wild Brownies.
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With the so called Indian summer apparently here, ( it’s rained at some point, everyday of it here so far )I took the opportunity to grab an afternoon off and head up to Pendreich for what will be the last time this season for me. Two anglers departing as I arrived had had no luck all morning though fish had been moving.
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It’s my local, and the commercial fishery I visit most, being as its walking distance from my house; a good walk, but walkable. But it’s still my bogey location. I can fish places I have never been and come away with something, but Swanswater continues to confound me.
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If you read this blog at all regularly or indeed you find yourself browsing through the tales of my angling trips you may have stumbled over the story of when I went up the wee burn, and lost the fly that was catching me the fish on a strategically placed bush on the other side of the stream. Not having waders on I could not recover it but on a later trip I went back, got said fly and continued to catch on it.
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