I have done a lot of fly tying recently and was looking for something a wee bit different to do. I work for EE in my day job and as most people won’t have missed ( in the UK) we have rebranded and launched an LTE data service marketted under the snappy name “4GEE”.
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As I said in my last post activities have been restricted to fly tying recently though I had a spot of treatment this week that hopefully might allow me to get out for a wee while at the weekend, especially Saturday being the last day of the official season. It would be nice to get a last Brownie of the year.
Read MoreNot really up to fishing just now, and the weather is pretty dire anyhow, what with the recent rainfall and pretty high winds here today. I have been gradually building up a few fly boxes hopefully for boat fishing next season. I am concentrating on the wet fly and nymph box just now, taking a bit inspiration from the Hillend Dabbler’s cracking flies and have been watching a few of Davie McPhails You Tube videos to tie a few patterns of his as well as some I have just done myself.
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Was up to PendreichCocksburn Reservoir (Pendreich) on Saturday there but it was not a lot of joy. It seems all the fish ( and there are plenty there) are heading for the depths and sulking as soon as there is a hint of cold air.
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On the principle that if you can’t beat them, join them I have tied a few Snatchers for my next outing to Pendreich. As far as I can tell these style flies are usually tied in 10-14’s but I have an excessive amount of size 16 Buzzer hooks, and being of the mindset that up at the loch, smaller is better, I have tied these in 16’s. So quite small and fiddly but compared to those Barry ties, he was using size 18 and 20’s for some of his Snatcher fishing!
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