Staying dry on the Clyde
While my fishing, and specifically dry fly fishing has not been without success this year on stillwaters, my success on rivers has been- well woeful probably isn’t too extreme a description.
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Category: Trips
2+2+2= 2
I am off out tomorrow on the Clyde with Game Angling Instructor and Charman of the Game Angling Instructors Association, Alberto Laidlaw. While I have to say my angling has improved immeasurably over the last 9 months – to the extent that I now go out expecting to catch at least a fish most trips, I still find my angling skills on moving water leave something to be desired. Everything actually.
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Almost every fly in the box
There were quite a few anglers there already but they said nothing was doing and no fish were moving. As if to contradict this- a fish jumped clean out the water about 3 yards out from the wall there and then!
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Fine weather for ducks
On call this weekend so can’t venture far. Went up to Pendreich just after 12 thinking the afternoon looked like it was going to brighten up.
As I drove up it got darker and darker and was utterly tipping it down by the time I arrived.
I just had to sit it out until it let up a bit so I could get tackled up.
May the 2nd? Felt more like February 2nd!
I went up to Pendriech for a wee hour and a half last night, seemed like a beautiful evening until you popped your head above the dam wall level where a force 5 Easterly was belting in carrying the North Sea chill with it! But there were a couple of anglers out on the East and North bank, so nothing ventured……
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