I got up this morning, ( Sunday) and was thinking it was likely a nicer day than yesterday for a late season ( Out of season I guess) outing on Lake of Menteith. The sun was shining and the colours of autumn were very prevalent but as I sit here to write this the sky has turned grey again and really yesterday wasn’t so bad though there was a bit of a troublesome, changeable wind at times.
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Being a Saturday I expected a few anglers to be out yesterday, especially with fishing evenings so limited now and the end of the Brown Trout season but a matter of days away. But having forgotten my keys ( again!) and having walked up to the loch I was surprised to find I was the only person there. Maybe it was due to the Rangers v Celtic game I learned later was on- that usually keeps the anglers away most places.
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Loch Gorm is huge. I don’t think a OS map or a look at Google Maps really prepares you for the size of the loch.
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The next fifteen minutes was electric. One of Glen’s first casts was answered with a swirl barely beyond his rod tip and he then had a huge boil at his flies and saw the flanks of a huge fish.
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You really feel you are in a special place fishing by the seat of the Lords of the Isles. Is there a more enigmatic fishing location? If there is I haven’t been there yet.
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