We all know the reasons that you were unable to join Graham and myself on our jaunt to Sutherland. In a way something positive had to come out of it and we believe that for future years our research in 2020 will benefit forth-coming trips. We had already realised that the Forsinard Flyfishers had enough interesting water to keep us occupied for two weeks of trouting. What we discovered this year that beyond the ‘big fish lochs’ there were lochs which I no longer classify as a 1,2 or 3 but FFF ! Yes the Fun, Fun, Fun lochs where it was possible to catch a dozen fish rise and lose that number again and hook some good fish of over a pound and some closer to two.
Every fishing day can be affected by the weather and there
will be lochs where on one occasion there seemed fishless and left a feeling of
never wanting to re-visit. There were a couple of examples of this, firstly
Graham had a raw day on Skyline in 2018 neither catching or rising a fish all
day. I persuaded him to re-visit this year and I had a nice fish but he pulled
out three cracking specimens whilst on the boat. On Clach Geala I blanked as
Graham landed two good fish. The Cross lochs provided us with a spectacle as we
sat chomping our lunch a very large trout came into less than a foot of water
in search of sticklebacks or tadpoles within ten feet from where we were
sitting.
There were also of a couple of places that we probably won’t revisit ,one in particular as it was firstly ,a long bumpy drive, secondly when we arrived at the parking spot the van was covered in clegs(horse flies) , thirdly the fishing was good but the trout were small, fourthly I discovered a puncture the following morning in one of my tyres.
We have six days fishing at this location next year and my
brother and I might not agree on each of our daily destination but we won’t
differ much either. We are already looking forward to showing you some new and
some old fishing spots in 2021.
Stay safe, Stay well
Peter
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