My pal John and I had a day up at Backwater on Friday. Its a magnificent location in Glen Isla run by the Kirriemuir Angling association. Permits are £10 for the day from the hut a Lintrathen reservoir.
Its a big body of water, probably about 4 miles of bank to fish, bank fishing only, no boats or wading, not stocked just Brownies, generally 1/2lb to 3/4lb but there are big fish caught every year.
Weather was better than forecast at first though the wind did get up late afternoon , we had the best of the day by then though. It was a strange but enjoyable day fro me, I was fishing a pearly pennell on the point and a partridge and lemon spider on the dropper. First 6 takes resulted in 6 fish to hand, after that despite numerous takes only 3 more landed. John was fishing a rubber leg thing and a sedgehog and did really well. Both had a really enjoyable day
Jim
