Tag: Blobs

The sun always shines at Butterstone

It was the SCAC club day at Butterstone yesterday. Weather conditions started very like my previous visit with very bright sunshine and little breeze. Good for casting but probably not so good for fishing. The water too was rather murky looking, though close in it looked clear enough.

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SSDD*

This weekend was meant to be the long awaited visit to the Tweed, to what is normally a salmon beat but which for a limited time permits a small amount of Grayling fishing.

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Spawn of Satan

I have to say I hate these things, and I have no intention of doing a Step By Step on how to tie them, as they are simple. I have been tying some Blobs, Egg Laying Blobs and a Black and Green “Fritz” as I was woefully short of anything of this description last weekend at Swanswater and they seemed to be the only pattern doing the business.

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A Self Confessed Hypocrite

In short I totally hate Blobs, Boobies and Bungs, and don’t get me on about Indicators.  In fact I don’t like Lures much either.

But do I use them? Well I am ’embarrassed'(?) to say that on occasions I have. In fact this winter I have certainly used lures and have fished buzzers under an “indicator” fly.

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