Tag: Orchill Loch

Can anyone find my MoJo?

After a crappy on-call week ( not that it was especially bad other than in the way that any on-call week is crap as you are apt to be dragged out your bed at some god-forsaken hour and asked to look at something thats broke , knowing that probably 2-3 others have tried and failed so far) I wanted to go catch the evening rise somewhere, wher  I know there are fish in front of me. Never having done Orchill in an evening, and having a score to settle from my lost monster and other near misses escapade a few weeks back I headed there.

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A good shift

So I was out bright and early for a 4 hour Catch and Release ticket on what turned out to be a nippy but otherwise stunning morning, and I was first there, well, if you don’t count a guy out in a boat, I can only guess he is the groundsman or the owner.

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First of the year on a dry…. sort of !

decided to move down to the bottom left corner as the wind was channeling down there- clearly the fishing would be harder but hopefully there would be fish waiting on food coming to them here. A few casts in, I discovered how difficult it was going to be in the wind, the 6 weight Sink tip was a battle to cast , it was blowing back at me.

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