Category: Stillwater

Dear Auntie Angling Agony

Dear Auntie,

I like this lady, she is attractive, popular with all the boys, not cheap though she lets me have a shot for a couple of drinks- OK a bottle of wine usually does it. But though I sometimes get her all to myself on occasions, she won’t let me have what I really want. I have tried playing round on top, in the middle and well “down below”, but it does not matter where I go or what I use to get there, in the end, nothing happens.

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Blown out

The plan had been to go somewhere different this week, but the weather got  off to a rubbish start with nearly an inch of rain on Monday and waking to a dry and bright but very windy day Tuesday.

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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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