A Dictionary of Summer Angling
My last two outings have been crap. Was going to head to Pendriech on Tuesday night but I was late...
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Category: Stillwater
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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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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