Four times Out
My outings of late have been fairly short and frankly not much to write home about, so I have condensed them into this little “compendium” of fishing trips.
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Category: Trips
Blowing at Burnhouse
As its the last day of my holidays I wanted to get out. The day started fair but the wind rose and it got quite grey with low cloud over the hills above Stirling. So Pendreich was out, and my second thought of Orchill would be wet too in all probability. Not been to Burnhouse for a while and it was away from the direction of the rain so I went there for 4 hours C&R.
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The Hook-Bender Persuivant
The CDC and Deer hair wasn’t getting a reaction and I went down sizes of fly until I got to a size 18 F Fly. This got me a follow it seemed as I retrieved the fly in wet – I never saw the fish but I had an arm wrenching tug and the line pinged from the water, fly less. The 4lb line had snapped at the fly.
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Drookit on Severn
Before I was even set up James had risen and missed 2 or 3 fish!
It wasn’t long when I started to get some action myself. As the bugs swung round and up on my French Leader and I started to lift I thought I spotted a swirl- or was it just the water vortexing round some rocks? I put the fly in there again, nothing, then once more, this time a take, and a lovely wee summer Grayling of about 25 cms was landed on a pheasant tail nymph.
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Coarse In the Vale of Dee
Our cottage is literally 20 yards from the Llangollen canal so I thought I might wet a line in there. I had seen a guy fishing in the canal at Trevor and he was catching on ‘bread punch’ whatever that is with a tiny wee stick float.
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