It’s my local, and the commercial fishery I visit most, being as its walking distance from my house; a good walk, but walkable. But it’s still my bogey location. I can fish places I have never been and come away with something, but Swanswater continues to confound me.
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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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Bangour trout Fishery is located up in the Bathgate Hills between Dechmont and Linlithgow, just to the east of the prominent radio mast on Cairnpapple Hill.
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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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Wasn’t out much at all last week what with the torrential rain, but had a few hours up at Pendreich on Saturday Afternoon. It was a mild if a little breezy day and not overly bright so I hoped it might be good for daytime fishing. Not had the boat out for a while , so with the wind being gusty I decided to take advantage of it not being in use and took it out. One advantage being you can always cast with the wind behind you wherever you are!
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