Tag: Euro Nymphing

A Challenge Fulfilled

A Challenge Fulfilled

Posted by | Sunday, August 7, 2011 | , , , , |

Anyway, I decided on Saturday today was going to be the day I tried to get the big fish in the remote deep run on the wee burn. Regular readers might remember me mention this stretch in previous outings. To recap, on our initial explore of the burn I spotted a section that looked very fishy but the wind made casting impossible. When I returned and fished it I got a few fish from the pool but right at the head of the pool I missed a fish that rolled on my fly, that looked way bigger than anything else I have seen in the burn. Did giants live here? Only one way to find out.

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Fathers day

Fathers day

Posted by | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 | , , , |

My son suggested last week that we might go up the hills for an explore down the burn we found, and have a spot of fishing on Sunday (Fathers Day). So with the prospect of a nice day out with my son and some potentially decent weather, we set out on the short drive to the head of the burn.

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Never leave a man behind………….

Never leave a man behind………….

Posted by | Monday, June 6, 2011 | , , , |

went back up the wee burn I fished on the bank holiday, when out with the family. I only had limited time to fish then, and never had a net or waders so access was a bit tricky in places and there were a few runs that looked massively inviting and sure to hold fish but the wind made them all but un-fishable. Also I lost a “favourite” fly on a bush that ordinarily I would have simply waded over to and retrieved and it was sort of bugging me as I knew exactly where it was, in the words of the US Marine Corps, or whoever it is, “never leave a man behind”, I went back for it.

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