Down Lochter way last week, within the bothy to escape the blowing gales, it was brought up that angling really does provide the time to think and reason not to!
But whether it was deep thinking or the depth of your fly that concerned you the one good thing was that plenty fish were being consistently caught even when the wind prevented too much fancy casting.
Ernie Mackay had 20 fish using small nymphs, Mike Skene used a mixture of lures to get him 18 fish and Colin Taylor fished a cat bug on the point with small cormorant droppers to get him 16 fish.
Steven Gray kept to using a team of buzzers and letting them drift on the wind for his 15 fish, Gary Craig had his first visit to Lochter in a while and it was worthwhile as he had 15 fish on a mixture of lures and Stuart Howie had 13 fish mainly on nymphs including the damsels.
Other returns were Bill Low with 12 on the cat’s whisker and WSW, Jim Brown with 12 on the eggstacy, Sean Simpson with 13 on diawl bachs and buzzers, Davie Cooper with 12 on cormorants and damsels, Albert Trail with 12 on cat bugs and buzzers and Jim Weir with 10 on the apps bloodworm.
Most other returns were in the 4-6 region with beaded diawl bachs, hare’s ears and okay dokays also to the fore.
It is said that, “No wind favours him who has no destined port.” So why not set your sail for Lochter this week and catch some of our fine trout.
Tight lines,
S.P 15/3/22
