[James Laraway]

And I forgot to mention, the line was a Barrio #10 intermediate. A beast of a line that casts big air resistant flies with easy - even with XL wiggle tails attached..

[Matt Hart]

I know exactly where that is, and I'm so glad you caught something and had some good contact! I fished it with my little brother back in June, and we didn't get a touch, absolutely nothing at all!

I'm curious (as we will be back again next summer), when you were getting contact, were you casting in to the deep water with a sinking line, or were you using a floating line sink tip etc? Or were you fishing in to the reeds? I tried both fly and spinner, various methods...and caught nothing but a cold! 

[James Laraway]

sent you a PM...

I know exactly where that is, and I'm so glad you caught something and had some good contact! I fished it with my little brother back in June, and we didn't get a touch, absolutely nothing at all!

I'm curious (as we will be back again next summer), when you were getting contact, were you casting in to the deep water with a sinking line, or were you using a floating line sink tip etc? Or were you fishing in to the reeds? I tried both fly and spinner, various methods...and caught nothing but a cold! 

[James Laraway]

Got a day off today so headed to the hills.
Northerly breeze but nothing too bad so launched the tube.
As 2 quick takes but they didn't stick and by lunchtime I had seen nothing else.
Tubed out to the edge of a wee island and went to the lee side and switched to an intermediate with a black and red muddler on the dropper.
Finally i'm in - a nice fish of about 35 cms then got another 3 in the next 10 mins as well as dropping one.
I did try a floater but they just weren't having it no matter what flies i tried !
Back to the intermediate and back into the fish. Ended up with 8 in the net and lost about 4. Cracking day out.
The ONLY fly they would take was a red bodied muddler with a black head and black marabou wing !
Managed a couple of wee photos

[Mike Barrio]

Bonnie fish, nice dark tails 

[James Laraway]

I almost forgot to do an writeup of my trip to one of Dornoch Angling Associations lochs on the10th sept....
Anyway, here goes
I got an invite to go and fish one of Dornoch Angling associations lochs as a thank you for trying up some flies for members so i was delighted to give it a bash
I have only fished one of their many brown trout lochs a few years ago and it was great fun, but this time i was on their stocked rainbow loch
The weather during the week has been boiling, hot and sunny
Luckily saturday was much cooler and i was to fish on the sunday
Turned up in the drizzle but the loch looked really nice. Their lochs are all natural and  in the hills ( one or 2 have very small dams to deepen them)



As you can see i was in my usual 'mode of transport'

Water was very calm so i went for an intermediate with a mini-humungous on the point and a PTKO on the dropper.

Within 10 mins my line felt very slightly heavy so i lifted my rod only to fins myself attached to a small 'bow

I then worked my way round the edge of some reed beds casting towards them.

Due to the weather changes you would not almost know you had  take till you tightened then found there was a fish on - it was like they were just holding the fly in their mouth to see what it was.

I fished for about 4 hours and landed 5 the best shown below



I also missed a few a lost a couple. All the fish were in amazing condition.

4 out of 5 took the olive mini humungus....

I'm not really a rainbow fisher but in lovely surroundings had a great day. Check out Dornoch Angling Clubs website  - they have lots of lochs and lots of choice with bank fishing as well as boats for rent.

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one James, good to see folk enjoying a bit of float tubing 

[John Wastle]

Thanks James. I have driven past these waters many, many times without knowing they were there and accessible.  A couple look worth a visit.
Johng