Had two very short sessions up at Pendreich this weekend, its a call out week so somewhat restricted in getting out, and the weather has been pretty pants for the time of year. The showeriness is fair enough, April showers and all that but its been freezing too, there is snow back on the hills round here- it had all vanished in February!
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A memorable day at Menteith for the wrong reasons, though not the disaster of last week when the boat broke down and I had to drift to the fishery to get out! ( note, it’s not a fishery boat!).
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So I was out bright and early for a 4 hour Catch and Release ticket on what turned out to be a nippy but otherwise stunning morning, and I was first there, well, if you don’t count a guy out in a boat, I can only guess he is the groundsman or the owner.
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For a long time I have found that John Emerson’s CDC dry fly ( colloquially known as the Shit fly) has been a hugely effective fly for the Browns at Pendreich. I have bought these from John at Uniqueflies because I struggled with tying such small flies and could not get the split wing right. I bought some Semperfli Nano Silk recently and this helps hugely both in terms of how strong it is but how much easier 12/0 thread makes tying such small flies.
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Don’t read this expecting to see much about fishing, as the fishing very much took second place!
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