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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I bought a EA fishing licence at the start of the season, though of course living in Gods own land I don’t actually need one. However I thought that I might end up in Wales sometime over the summer, and also I travel a lot for work so having the option to thrash the water seemed attractive.
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Up in the north on holiday and as part of the rental of the cottage we have, we have access to Loch Laro roughly a forty minute hike away.
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I went for a wander up the hills to have a look and a wee cast over the second of the two lochs I have access to on a local estate. Never been up this far up the hill and when I got there imagine my surprise when I found it, I would guess, over half empty! It looked like the surface of the moon (if you ignored the water- which then I guess made it resemble a gravel pit).
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