A Last Hurrah
It was bright and reasonably mild for the time of year but pretty breezy when I arrived. Though the wind was blowing off the dam wall I decided to fish the north bank which was tricky but not totally unmanageable.
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Tag: Pendreich
No Through Road
It’s been quiet here on the fishing reports front, primarily for the rather obvious reason that I have not been out fishing. My last outing at Butterstone Loch took me a few days to get over with this bloody arthritic problem I have and since then the weather has been rubbish for one thing and my condition worsened to the point where I was struggling to walk more than a few dozen yards before needing to stop and take the weight off my hip.
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Come to daddy
The conditions seemed very similar to last Saturday but that nothing seemed to be moving. Undeterred, I put on the fly that did so well last weekend, a deer hair Comparadun and gave it a few casts up the North bank. One chap coming in on the boat had had a decent session and had caught on small black wets, one like a Butcher, the other something home-made he said. So there were fish about it seemed.
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Famine and feast
Saturday was the SCAC outing to Frandy. The day started a bit dreich but the forecast was for a warm sunny day and little winds. I don’t know if it is due to the lochs location in a bowl in the hills but it was grey most of the day with the odd light shower and some very changeable and blustery winds which made fishing tricky at times. The wind blew in general towards the dam wall though it would change in the space of two gusts from blowing towards the left end of the dam, to blowing towards the right end.
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Toughing it out
A glutton for punishment, it was up to Pendreich again for an evening of warm sunshine, plentiful fly life, a ripple on the water and eager Brown Trout begging to take a well presented dry fly.
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