Had a couple of hours up at Pendreich Saturday, the weather man reported it was to be a lovely day but it was damp and misty for most of the day with a little sun eeking out later in the afternoon, though it could never be considered warm. Sub-Saharan Africa need not feel threatened by the temperature here yet then, despite the rubbish in the news.
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If you read this blog at all regularly or indeed you find yourself browsing through the tales of my angling trips you may have stumbled over the story of when I went up the wee burn, and lost the fly that was catching me the fish on a strategically placed bush on the other side of the stream. Not having waders on I could not recover it but on a later trip I went back, got said fly and continued to catch on it.
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I’ve been out three times this past week to Pendreich when the weather has been up to it. On Monday night it looked quite grim but though a bit dark was actually amazingly still, too still for trout fishing you might argue. I missed a solitary attempt at a take on an LTD Sedge, never felt like I touched the fish and it never came back. Could not get a show of interest right down to size 20 midges. Skunked!
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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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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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