I decided to visit the Avon today and via facebook contacted Alan Scott, a very enthusiastic club member, to get the info on how the river was fishing, and he very kindly offered to meet me to get me sorted out with a ticket etc. However I was surprised to be offered the “full tour” and Alan very kindly took me to the hatchery, Glengavel Reservoir ( an amazing looking expanse of still water also run and stocked by the club) and showed me some interesting sections of the river to help me get my bearings.
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If you read my blog a lot you will know I fish regularly at my club water Pendreich ( Cocksburn Reservoir) and have been having something of a lean spell there recently. Lean- try totally barren.
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After such a hot bright day yesterday I took a wander up the River Devon, thinking there would be lots of activity. In fact there was but it was mostly small trout and despite the abundance of flies on the water, from midges to very large Mayflies of some sort, I could not get any real idea of what they were taking.
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I arranged back in the winter to have a day out fishing with an old friend from work, we don’t work together now ( not directly at least) but still blether via fB and both being partial to wetting a fly agreed to meet up sometime in the early summer.
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