Tag: Wet Fly

It’s Been a While

It’s Been a While

Posted by | Monday, April 18, 2022 | , , , |

It is fair to say my 2022 season hasn’t gotten off to the most “flying start”. A perfect storm of mostly work, and to some extent weather has kept me away from the water pretty much since the season opened. As the long Easter weekend approached I hoped for a wee bit of rain so I might be able to venture down the River Carron (which seems to have been fishing reasonably well for early season) and there were some brief interludes of rain in the last week, but when I made it out on Friday afternoon it looked quite low and my hopes definitely took a knock.

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Dawn Patrol

Dawn Patrol

Posted by | Saturday, June 19, 2021 | , , , |

It was something of a surprise therefore yesterday morning, when I was up very early with the intention of seeing a “near” summer solstice dawn in on the water. As I exited the door of the warm house without a jacket on to put some bits and pieces in the car, (it was only 03:55 but it was more or less daylight), I had a sharp intake of breath as it was very cold. A rapid retreat saw me back in the house to grab my thermal jacket. The car thermometer read 7Centigrade but it felt even colder as there was a breeze that would half you in two.

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In the Valley of the Lizards

In the Valley of the Lizards

Posted by | Sunday, August 25, 2019 | , , , |

When I got up there it was evident there is still a LOT of water coming down off the higher ground and it was very peat stained. Right away I was thinking this might be a bit of a dead loss. I think I have encountered high water here once before and it was very hard to find a fish, in fact, that time I think I blanked which is unusual on the burn.

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