An hour of the day
Its been a very nice day again today, June has lived up to its reputation as the driest month of...
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Tag: Klinkhammer
The Hook-Bender Persuivant
The CDC and Deer hair wasn’t getting a reaction and I went down sizes of fly until I got to a size 18 F Fly. This got me a follow it seemed as I retrieved the fly in wet – I never saw the fish but I had an arm wrenching tug and the line pinged from the water, fly less. The 4lb line had snapped at the fly.
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Drookit on Severn
Before I was even set up James had risen and missed 2 or 3 fish!
It wasn’t long when I started to get some action myself. As the bugs swung round and up on my French Leader and I started to lift I thought I spotted a swirl- or was it just the water vortexing round some rocks? I put the fly in there again, nothing, then once more, this time a take, and a lovely wee summer Grayling of about 25 cms was landed on a pheasant tail nymph.
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Broken and bent
That may be a description of me, if my current physical condition is being referred to, however, it was also the state of some of my flies after a 4 hour session at Harviestoun Fishery near Alva. I have not been out much recently for one reason or another and I fancied a wee change, so decided to head up the A91 for a new location to fish.
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Back to the Devon
A cold but otherwise fair day beckoned and I wasn’t sure what to do with myself on the...
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