Needs must
Today was to be half decent and I really was in the mood for fishing from a boat, I can fish...
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Tag: Cocksburn Reservoir
The food processor and Nuclear winter
It’s been freezing lately. Not just the usual winter cold, frosty mornings, sun low on the...
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A Last Hurrah
It was bright and reasonably mild for the time of year but pretty breezy when I arrived. Though the wind was blowing off the dam wall I decided to fish the north bank which was tricky but not totally unmanageable.
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No Through Road
It’s been quiet here on the fishing reports front, primarily for the rather obvious reason that I have not been out fishing. My last outing at Butterstone Loch took me a few days to get over with this bloody arthritic problem I have and since then the weather has been rubbish for one thing and my condition worsened to the point where I was struggling to walk more than a few dozen yards before needing to stop and take the weight off my hip.
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Come to daddy
The conditions seemed very similar to last Saturday but that nothing seemed to be moving. Undeterred, I put on the fly that did so well last weekend, a deer hair Comparadun and gave it a few casts up the North bank. One chap coming in on the boat had had a decent session and had caught on small black wets, one like a Butcher, the other something home-made he said. So there were fish about it seemed.
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