The Red Tag Jig Bug
I have decided to have a go at making a SBS video of one of my favourite flies for Grayling fishing, the Red Tag Jig Bug.
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Opening time
It was very icy down there but I arrived just at sunrise and had the river to myself. I set up two rods both with french leaders and different sets of bugs.
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Bonnie on Clyde
I started off well upstream and fishing the French Leader on a pool I know has held a few” ladies of the stream” for me in the past. On my first run through the line tightened with the characteristic thump, thump of a headshaking Grayling and my day was made. It took me a few minutes but it was soon into the net, a fish on the upper side of one and a half to two pounds, a solid female grayling.
Read MoreA season on the burn
Not being able to walk terribly well means my outings on the burn this season have been even fewer than last. The weather wasn’t too helpful when I did make it into the hills either, either raining or blowing or sun beaming.
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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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