Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Rivers & Lochs => Topic started by: James Laraway on 11/06/2018 at 21:27
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got a surprise 'green card' offered to me this evening so jumped at the chance,
hit my 'local' trout loch.
within 20 mins i got a nice, fat fish of about 3/4lbs ( on a purple zulu)
despite the early success i thought i would change my flies to something more natural.
2 casts later my new SLX goes tight...
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after that i went home - all within 2 hours of leaving the house.
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Top effort :z16
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had my heart going that for sure. I saw it take the fly, just subsurface ( took an emerger/hopper type creation) and didnt look that big. Came in easily at first as i dont think it knew what was happening so i thought i'd get it in the net - but it noticed and zoomed off on a couple of blistering runs. Wasnt still i got it in the net that i saw the size. Lovely wild fish :z16
the flee that did the business
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Nice Fish James, glad to see the Purple Zulu is still catching , I made up this fly 40 years ago, as an alternative to the blue variety, but that is one hell of a fish, :z14 Derek Roxborough
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if you need any coloured feathers just drop me a PM....
i got a job lot some time ago as you can see - more than happy to share
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very kind of you James, I have nearly 60 years of fly tying gear in my box, trying hard to use it before I shuffle of this mortal coil, I really had to stop gathering stuff, but thank you for the offer again, I have been tempted by Feather emporium , Get thee behind me!, some amazing stuff on there, cheers Derek Roxborough