Another closing day
After my debacle last week at Swanswater ( again!) and needing my fix of Rainbow bashing as we move into winter, I found out it was the last day of the “season” at North Third so decided to get a boat for the day.
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Tag: Rainbow trout
Fishing on the lawn
A visit to a new place for me today, Linlithgow Loch- you can read more about the actual place on my fishery reviews page which will be up about the same time as this post.
It was reported on the radio as I buzzed over to Linlithgow that the weather was to dry up mid-morning for a settled afternoon, in the usually reliable Met Office fashion it rained all morning and right through to about three in the afternoon. Not torrential or driving rain, just that all-encompassing drizzly rain that seems to saturate everything.
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Surely the UK’s unluckiest fish?
I went up to North Third today for a day out in a boat and hoping for some good sport. To be honest I won’t bore you with the entire tale but in short I fished from 10:00 in the morning to 16:45 and never had the merest sniff of interest from a fish.
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Bristol Barrows
The Bristol Barrows are part of the Bristol Water Portfolio of angling reservoirs. The Barrows consist of three concrete lined reservoirs known locally as “The Tanks”.
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First find some fish
One of the secrets of fishing to my mind is first, find some fish. You can have the best cast, the nicest flies, the best tackle, but its all worth nowt if you can’t put the fly near to fish. And I wonder if my recent trouble with Rainbows is down to (partly anyway) not finding fish in the first place. ( I guess you can’t say that with Swanswater- they are right there in front of you)
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