Hit or Miss…..verdict = Miss
Not sure what happened today - fished the Clyde with little success. It was warm, overcast and little wind. There were several types of flies hatching, Yellow Mays, A large type olive and then this tiny little olive.
I still managed to winkle out a few trout - this one came to a dry…
And then I got another couple fishing with Clyde Style wets.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Oh well…probably fortunate that I didn’t get up early this morning to go to Biggar as I had planned . We’ll see what Monday brings .
June 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
No fishing tommorow?
June 7th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Well not at Lamington as Sundays are verboten ..LOL
June 8th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Clyde Style wets Alistair? Tisk, tisk, your standards are fairly slipping old boy!!! I remember the first time we met we had a long discussion regarding the merits of these little flees. I fished solely with them and small mymphs in those days but you managed to persuade me over to the dry. However, they can be deadly and are worth re-visiting when conditions dictate. I ‘ve just returned from my favourite east coast river where conditions were challenging due to low flows and high sun during the day. Thus, our fishing hours were confined to 10pm - 6am, which meant very unsociable hours and fishers looking like zombies for most of the time. The sea trout have not materialised in numbers yet, however i managed one about 2lbs and then a lovely salmon of 10lbs on the trout rod. It took all of my fly line the moment it was hooked and was eventually beached 100 yards downstream , a good 25 mins after hooking it. The trout rod is really the way to get them in the low flows and what a fight!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
A friend of mine saw a TV ad the other day saying it was illegal to fish anywhere in Scotland without a rod licence. Anyone heard anything about this?
June 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
No such thing as a Rod Licence in Scotland . You do need a licence to fish tho’ ….
This might help
http://www.flyfish-scotland.com/scotslaw.htm
June 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
indeed you do, for the record I do happen to be a permit holder for the kelvin and buy day tickets for the other rivers I fish……
June 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Andy,
Not sure if you meant “indeed you do” to mean you do need a rod licence ( altho’ there are none up here ) or,more probably,indeed you do need a permit
BTW ,where did your friend see this advert?
June 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Yes I meant one does need a permit for the river one is fishing
Friend lives in paisley and saw it on ITV, he was sure it was meant for Scotland
June 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Perhaps he was watching another regional ( not Scottish) ITV on digital ???
June 11th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Not to interrupt a lovely discussion on the finer points of angling law, but that is a truly beautiful picture of a trout. I stared at it for at least a minute. Thanks.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Thanks Ed