First blog for ages as I have been a bit busy. Mind you the weather has been awful with torrential rain and high winds making fishing difficult, Still, there is always the fly vice and tying flies, which most fly fishermen will turn to in the close season, unless like myself they have the odd day here and there on the trout fisheries trying for stocked Rainbows. I don't really like some of these small fisheries where you stand shoulder to shoulder with other anglers. It reminds me of the Golf Driving Ranges where it's practice, not the real thing but it keeps you from getting rusty.

Carron Reservoir

I've had a few days on my local river with mixed success, some days catching regularly while others have been blank but enjoyable. All the trout I have caught have been well under a pound in weight and all returned, a change from my youth when the river regularly gave up the odd fish well over a pound in weight and there were more trout in those days too, or is that just my imagination? Next season I intend to have a lot of days on the Carron Reservoir, which is just a half hours drive away and is one of Scotland's best trout fisheries.