We decided to have a day out- a long walk with the dog over the hills not too far from home. I had spotted what looked like a route I had not seen before, when out a few days earlier in the car and after a look at an OS map decided why don’t we try that. The weather forecast was rubbish (well not as bad as of late but still due to be wet) so not venturing too far from home meant we could bolt back if it was a bad decision.
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The weather continues to be pants up here with a constant wind, though for now it’s turned westerly which is better than the easterly of a week or so ago, but it’s blustery and changeable and difficult to fish.
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While my fishing, and specifically dry fly fishing has not been without success this year on stillwaters, my success on rivers has been- well woeful probably isn’t too extreme a description.
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I decided to have my first day out on the River Devon, that runs from Glen Devon down to Menstrie.
This was not so much a fishing trip as an exploratory trip as I really don’t know the area at all and am not sure of the best places for access or indeed for fishing, So I worked on the principle that if I started at the most “remote” end and work down I would be doing the right thing. I followed the river up to Castlehill Reservoir and went down to the top bridge on this stretch at Dunning Bridge.
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I quite fancied the French Leader technique for fishing nymphs in the winter and was toying with...
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