Tag: Buzzers

A good shift

So I was out bright and early for a 4 hour Catch and Release ticket on what turned out to be a nippy but otherwise stunning morning, and I was first there, well, if you don’t count a guy out in a boat, I can only guess he is the groundsman or the owner.

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First of the year on a dry…. sort of !

decided to move down to the bottom left corner as the wind was channeling down there- clearly the fishing would be harder but hopefully there would be fish waiting on food coming to them here. A few casts in, I discovered how difficult it was going to be in the wind, the 6 weight Sink tip was a battle to cast , it was blowing back at me.

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The maintenance of dignity

Out of the main Brown Trout season I usually pop along to my “local”, Swanswater, if I need a quick Piscatorial fix. However, if you are a regular reader, which of course you will be, 😉 you will know that my Swanswater outings usually end in humiliation, for me rather than the fish.

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Return to form at Swanswater

It’s my local, and the commercial fishery I visit most, being as its walking distance from my house; a good walk, but walkable. But it’s still my bogey location. I can fish places I have never been and come away with something, but Swanswater continues to confound me.

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