My son and I went up to Lake of Menteith yesterday (Saturday ) for a late days fishing, I think the official evening fishing ticket times have ended but fishing as a guest of one of the families who own rights on the lake (loch?) , we took the boat out at the back of three and fished until dusk around nine. We pretty much had the loch to ourselves for all but the first hour.
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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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Well, the day finally came round and to start with at least it really could not have began in a nicer fashion. The sun was out, there was barely a breath of wind and things looked set for a great days fishing.
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Went out on Saturday night for an hour or so up to Pendreich, the weather had been abysmal all day- blowing the usual gale and out for a walk with the Missus later on the wind seemed to abate a little and it felt like it was warming up. I could stand it no more- so nipped up the loch to catch any possible rise near sunset.
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Well, it’s not gone unnoticed by me that if you want to go fishing at a weekend AND have somewhere to yourself, you can’t do much better than the day of an Old Firm derby, if you live anywhere in the central belt of Scotland. ( I suppose it might be a wee bit different in the East round Edinburgh) but certainly where I am and I would guess more so Glasgow, days when there is a Rangers v Celtic derby on means quiet waters.
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