Glendevon Trout
If you ever watched the Hooked on Fishing series with Paul Young many years ago- or maybe you were...
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Category: Trips
Hope “Springs” eternal
This week the plan is to try get out and fish a few places I haven’t been to before. Ideally I would prefer to fish from a boat where I can fish seated as standing and walking are a bit uncomfortable right now. However it wasn’t an option today but I still fancied getting out, so where to go? The only local small Stillwater I have not visited so far is Bowden Springs, so I nipped along the M9 for a few hours catch and release.
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Come to daddy
The conditions seemed very similar to last Saturday but that nothing seemed to be moving. Undeterred, I put on the fly that did so well last weekend, a deer hair Comparadun and gave it a few casts up the North bank. One chap coming in on the boat had had a decent session and had caught on small black wets, one like a Butcher, the other something home-made he said. So there were fish about it seemed.
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Famine and feast
Saturday was the SCAC outing to Frandy. The day started a bit dreich but the forecast was for a warm sunny day and little winds. I don’t know if it is due to the lochs location in a bowl in the hills but it was grey most of the day with the odd light shower and some very changeable and blustery winds which made fishing tricky at times. The wind blew in general towards the dam wall though it would change in the space of two gusts from blowing towards the left end of the dam, to blowing towards the right end.
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