Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Social Corner => Topic started by: Iain Cameron on 27/03/2024 at 08:47
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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.
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/11431-270324084340.jpeg)
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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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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Loving the tee shirt Iain >)
I still wear one of the black ones, black seems to last longer, or hides the years better *smiley-grin*
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I believe I know the loch, may have had a cast on it last year. Unfortunately I cannot vouch for the size of the trout as I blanked.
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Iain,
That was on my birthday and I was fine ….
Was that the trip where one if your party was thrashing a trout loch to death with a 15’ salmon rod?
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Any thoughts on doing a limited re-run of t-shirts Mike?!
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Any thoughts on doing a limited re-run of t-shirts Mike?!
Not had any thoughts Andrew, I've always found it difficult to know what to put on them ...... What would you like to see?
I did this simple design a few years back, but never did anything with it.
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/2-280324112934.jpeg)
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Not had any thoughts Andrew, I've always found it difficult to know what to put on them ...... What would you like to see?
I did this simple design a few years back, but never did anything with it.
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/2-280324112934.jpeg)
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/12752-280324150929.jpeg)
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/12752-280324151127.jpeg)
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Nice previews Andrew :)
Do you like that one? ...... Or did you have any other ideas?
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I was just playing around with some of the creator software online tbh.
I think your design is really good, but often with colour schemes less is more. An olive t-shirt works on its own or as an underlayer, and generally doesn’t clash with other colours. The black script works well with that colour, better than white which I thought would work.
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Sorry for hijacking your topic Iain :X1
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Threadbare in places, a bit tatty, and should probably be binned. But enough about me, here is the t shirt in action this week
(https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/11431-310324161946.jpeg)
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My wife’s mother is from that island Iain. Her uncle still lives not far from that loch. I’ve only fished it once and blanked. Did see one or 2 of the infamous residents move far out beyond reach.
This was 10 yrs ago, I’ve not heard if it’s still worth a cast. Her uncle says it’s not.
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So the loch is Bhruisda, on the island of Berneray. Excuse my spelling, I frankly can’t be bothered to check.
I remember picking up a permit at the coffee shop. The catch returns book was: blank, blank, blank, 5lber, blank blank, big fish…. And so on. A lot of blanks - two out of two visits for me - with the chance of the odd big troot seemed to be the norm. I wouldn’t rush back, as the plentiful lochs of north and south Uist hold enough interest and adventure for many days of trouting