I was going to fish along the nearside of the smaller pond as no one was there. I went and got my ticket and wouldn’t you know it? but an angler from the main loch had started fishing adjacent to where I wanted to fish, casting right in toward the peg I was going to fish. (it’s on a corner).
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I knew I was in trouble as I pulled up in the car park with no one on the small ponds and not a single fish showing. I decided on a 2 hour permit on the main loch and tackled up. Speaking to a few anglers it was clear that it was not going to be easy. One chap had been there “all day” and had two fish to show for it plus a few small browns in the evening. It seemed everyone else was blanking (not that it was busy).
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On what seems to have been the first true day of Summer, certainly that I have experienced this year, when it was actually warm enough to be out without a jacket on, it would have been sacrilege to have spent the evening sat staring at the box, in the hotel room.
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Six and a half weeks. That is how long it is to the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year- after that it’s all downhill to winter. Except that outside its utterly freezing with a wind that would half you in two like one of the Gladiators in Sparticus ( the one on Sky One).
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The weather looked like it was going to be nice and Sunny, but it started with a strong and VERY cold west wind which turned to blow from the North in the afternoon. It was utterly freezing most of the day, worse than winter, and I almost expected to see icing rod rings!
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