Just got back from an over nighter up in the highlands. Couple of hours in, couple of hours back and about 10 hours walking in between and 6 lakes fished.
Did my knee a mischief on the way out. Fishing was tough and never even pulled the fly rod out; just used plastics. Windy, foggy/misty, cold. On the final water we fished the conditions improved, the sun meekly poked it's head out and as we rounded onto the windward shore i hooked into the first fish of the day which was followed by another 6 landed and a couple dropped. Average size of fish was excellent with 5 of the 7 fish over 50cm, one just below at around 46-48cm and one scrapper at around 35cm. We were both happy lads, with my mate bagging one extra fish (which made him happy because we have been fishing 2-3 times before and he has blanked while i have landed good fish; well, it was his birthday so why not!
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We both had some near calls with good fish on another lake but failed to hook up earlier in the day.
Conditions this morning were less than pleasant and not favourable for fishing so we used some discretion and headed straight out after a cuppa and a few flicks on the camp tarn. Lucky, because the weather has turned horrible and we had a few worried of being whitted out on the exit journey with fog threatening to close right in a few times. We were both satisfied with the results for trip, anyway.
All in another good trip into the wet country.
- First catch for the trip; a nice buck brownie at the 57cm mark.
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- Fish # 2: a nice fat hen fish just over 50cm! :)
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