Not going to go into deep detail on this post. about Sunday’s short 2 hours at the Mill Pond at Swanswater. Once again the recent weather ( a lot of rainfall) precluded any river outings, and then heavy dank foggy conditions held me back from getting out until it seemed to lift a little around 2pm. So I couldn’t be bothered taking a two hour ticket on the main water ( it can take longer to find the fish and the pattern) so I opted to try my luck on one of the wee ponds. The Meadow Pond was pretty busy too, leaving the Mill Pond which has been somewhat afflicted by thick weed growth this year. I know Alastair has had a hard time keeping it clear. Despite us being well into Autumn there is a still a bit weed there and so the shallower end is still quite difficult to fish with sinking flies. The deeper bottom end had three anglers covering the main areas so I took the nearest casting platform I could and started to fish. I started with two flies, a wee spider on the dropper and a Squirmy Wormy Bloodworm, but the two flies on the intermediate were proving to be a snag fest. So off with the intermediate, off with the dropper, on with a sink tip and soon after fish number 1, a typical 2lb Rainbow on the bloodworm. Soon I had number 2 a very thick  short but heavy fish probably of about 3lb came to the net.

A few fish were moving on top and I dared to try the small black spider again as an angler opposite had a fish on one earlier, at that stage the only other fish I seen caught, but never had a look and so tied on the bloodworm again and was soon into a nice wee Blue Trout.

Then number 4 was caught, another smaller Rainbow. By then the two other anglers near me were calling it a day, they had fish though I never seen them land one while I was there. I moved to their platform and right away hooked then lost a fifth fish, but then soon landed number five proper  with a few minutes left of my two hours. I managed one more pull and reckon had I been able to fish on I would have kept catching, it was great fun sport and no fish were despatched in the process.