I have done a lot of fly tying recently and was looking for something a wee bit different to do. I work for EE in my day job and as most people won’t have missed ( in the UK) we have rebranded and launched an LTE data service marketted under the snappy name “4GEE”.
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I suspect my winter fishing this year might be a bit of a hit or miss affair so will need to console myself with some evenings in front of the vice tying flies.
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I was going to fish along the nearside of the smaller pond as no one was there. I went and got my ticket and wouldn’t you know it? but an angler from the main loch had started fishing adjacent to where I wanted to fish, casting right in toward the peg I was going to fish. (it’s on a corner).
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I managed a couple of 4 hour sessions on some local rainbow trout fisheries this week. I wasn’t desperate to go but as my likely opportunities to fish might be limited as this winter wears on I thought I should not look a gift horse in the mouth, and get out. A lot of what fishing is about for me, is just getting out doors and just now this sort of time is at a premium.
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I started off well upstream and fishing the French Leader on a pool I know has held a few” ladies of the stream” for me in the past. On my first run through the line tightened with the characteristic thump, thump of a headshaking Grayling and my day was made. It took me a few minutes but it was soon into the net, a fish on the upper side of one and a half to two pounds, a solid female grayling.
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