Last night the weather forecast was set fair, so I was hopeful, if I felt Ok , that I might make it out for a few hours today. I quite fancied heading further afield ( again depending how I felt) its only worth the travel if I can fish 4 hours I reckon.
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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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