I have not fished my “local” Swanswater for a while, between having the “free” fishing through the club at Pendreich and being committed to the Carron Valley MacMillan competition a few weeks back my resources have a finite limit to afford other pay as you go fisheries.
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I follow Davie MacPhail’s series of fly tying videos on YouTube and today his pattern was called the “Wrong Midge” (for some reason he removed the video).
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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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Ironically on the last weekend before the opening of the official Brown Trout season and I think (other than call out weekends) it’s my first non angling weekend this year. Weather has been dreadful- we had high winds up to the weekend then snow pretty well all day Saturday, it only let up to rain, and today has been very wet as well.
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It wasn’t the brightest warmest or most springlike day that greeted us on Saturday morning at Swanswater- but at least it wasn’t chucking it down with rain or blowing a gale as it so easily can do at this time in the (pre) season.
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