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Social Corner / Re: Old Tee shirt
« Last post by Eddie Sinclair on 27/03/2024 at 09:18 »
Iain,

That was on my birthday and I was fine but one of the other guys in the party was not. I couldn’t even phone you to say I couldn’t come as I had drowned my phone on Hosta the day before 😂. I will leave the guessing of the loch in the picture to others. Fabulous place with monster trout.

Can’t believe that was eleven years ago.
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Social Corner / Old Tee shirt
« Last post by Iain Cameron on 27/03/2024 at 08:47 »
Celebrating my much loved Barrio fly lines T. This is from August 2013.
The tee is still on the go; bit faded and decrepit; I can relate.



Taken on a Hebridean island loch, with a very distinctive shallow sand flat before it drops off. Bonus points for anyone who can name it!
Euan Innes, Hamish & I fished it once together, and Eddie Sinclair stood me up and didn’t fish with me the day I took this picture. I think he had whisky flu….
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That was a lovely read, Hamish, well written.
I chuckled at the “allowed on the oars”… that was the kind of flannel my uncle used on me when he couldn’t be arsed rowing himself…
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Tackle Talk / Re: High Speed line changer
« Last post by Kerry Jordan on 26/03/2024 at 20:57 »
Yes! Makes the difference between  moving or respooling lines and can’t be arsed!
Also the diameter of the coil can be changed by raising or lowering the arms on the spindle.
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Tackle Talk / Re: Smaller rods..any advice?
« Last post by Robert MacDonald-Lewis on 26/03/2024 at 20:31 »
The faster Taniwha carbon blanks 10ft in 4 or 3wt make for very good loch rods.
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A brilliant story, I enjoyed it immensely. I grew up in Morar. Sadly did not fly fish in my youth, but have many memorys of fishing the loch, usually light trolling. Last year I caught one of my best fish from Morar on fly from a float tube. A beautiful golden fish of just over two pounds.

Would love to have a boat to fish the loch, but hard to justify the outlay, and I rarely have the time to fish when I do manage to visit family.
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: Looks like a delay to the start of my season
« Last post by Hamish Young on 26/03/2024 at 20:16 »
Feast and famine for you guys it seems.....
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Tackle Talk / Re: High Speed line changer
« Last post by Hamish Young on 26/03/2024 at 20:15 »
Have to say, that looks bloody handy  :!
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Tackle Talk / Re: High Speed line changer
« Last post by Mike Barrio on 26/03/2024 at 19:18 »
Nice one Kerry, that looks great  :)
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Rivers & Lochs / Looks like a delay to the start of my season
« Last post by Graham Nicol on 26/03/2024 at 18:07 »
Our rivers down here in Hants generally open on Apr 14. However, flooded water meadows and a high water table mean any further rain makes them act like spate rivers and any fall in levels will be extremely slow. Some of the banks have been underwater since before Christmas and thus are very soft and dangerous. It is more than likely many beats will delay their opening.  The pictures below show the upper Test where the bank on the left side has been underwater for more than 4 months and the other is a fishing hut on the Anton somewhat marooned. Roll on some nice weather!



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