Getting Smutty
Saturday was the first outing for the 2018 season of Stirling Castle Angling Club and to pick the one day out of 365 which turned out to be summer in Scotland, has to be sheer good luck.
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Tag: Damsel
Old, New, Damsel and Blue
This though finished my time with the Wotsit, yes it works but I can’t say I enjoyed fishing it and deep hooking isn’t something I want to be doing when fishing C&R.
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Year of the Tiger?
I have not been out fishing for a good few weeks. The weather has been truly awful, the arthritis...
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In the company of Damsels
It’s a call out weekend so fishing choices are limited by phone and pager. I went up to Pendreich on what looked like a perfect fishing afternoon. Breezy enough to create a little wave, bright but not glaringly so, and reasonably warm but not roasting. Surely the fish would be on the top and feeding.
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Making the best of it
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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