All at Sea at Menteith
Don’t read this expecting to see much about fishing, as the fishing very much took second place!
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Category: Stillwater
It Should’ve Been Three
I went off for a couple of hours fishing. There were fish rising all over the loch and on a small brown Klinkhammer I rose a fish but it wasn’t taking. Losing the fly on some snag, I tried again, this time another fish refused and again I was snagged losing a second fly!
I moved down the bank and changed to a small (18) black midge pattern but not before I dropped one in the grass- three flies down!
No one said it would be easy
A bit of a multi-date diary this one. Went out last Wednesday for my first evening session this year. It was a lovely evening even though all told it was just over an hours fishing.
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Knot Happening
Had a couple of hours up at Pendreich Saturday, the weather man reported it was to be a lovely day but it was damp and misty for most of the day with a little sun eeking out later in the afternoon, though it could never be considered warm. Sub-Saharan Africa need not feel threatened by the temperature here yet then, despite the rubbish in the news.
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What a difference a day makes
I had a couple of hours to get out and make hay so to speak on Saturday and Sunday. Friday as I reported earlier wasn’t the nicest day but between the squally showers in the dank greyness of the afternoon, there were batches of flies coming off the water and the Trout were chasing them up, so you stood a chance sub surface and even on the top.
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