Wednesday, 8 August 2012

24/07/12 - Swanswater, Stirling

This was my second visit to Swanswater, this time for an evening session.

It was a lovely warm night with lots of fish rising.
I managed to hook a fish on an orange fritz, gold head lure, but didn’t set the hook right and it got away….quite exciting stuff with a flash of silver turning and making a bolt.

No other fish made any attempt to take my fly.
A problem occurred in my casting as well, the leader just would not lie flat and straight and kept ending up coiled up on the water.  After a few weeks, I was reading one of my fishing books and realised that this was due to putting too much tippet material on my tapered leader.  I was using a 9ft leader with probably around 8ft of tippet!!!   So no wonder it wouldn’t cast well.

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