Choices
With such a nice weekend, I felt I was a little spoiled for choice as to where to fish when I...
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Category: Trips
Nowt, odder than trout
It is the first evening that the weather seemed anywhere at all near spring-like. By that I mean it was light until after 10 pm and you weren’t at risk of death from exposure if not wearing several layers of technical under clothes.
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Days like these
I had my first afternoon up at Cocksburn Reservoir this season, yesterday. I have not been up mainly because it’s been so cold and it being quite high it is fairly exposed at the best of times. That in turn can lead to a dour experience with the sulking Brown Trout.
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Half Shares
I was in two minds to go fishing today ( Sunday) when I went to bed on Satrurday, but the weather while looking decidedly milder wasn’t looking particularly settled and my weather app at least suggested it might be a bit of a wet and miserable day. Between freezing cold, bright sunny days with no heat to speak of or deluges of rain, hail and actual snow and a total lack of anything approaching warmth for 99% of the time, this Spring is eminently forgettable, I am sure you will agree.
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Easier for some
As we daundered out into the water, on boat 13 ( lucky for some) and having foolishly been saying to Douglas and Bill that while I have never found Lake of Menteith a particularly easy venue, it was getting now that I was catching on most visits…..talk about setting yourself up for a fall!
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