Lochter Report – Hope is all you need
Down Lochter way last week the rains eventually eased off to allow some hope of decent fishing without being drenched. They say hope is a ‘waking dream’ and that all human wisdom is summed up in the two words – ‘wait and hope’ – qualities which readily transfers to the world of angling, so we are a wise bunch after all.
Hopefulness did abound at Lochter, but it wasn’t so much needed as there was the steady sight of bending rods with the Muckle Troot loch proving very popular and productive.
In the over 20 fish return category were Jim Brown who fished his favourite shimmer worm, Graham Taylor changed between a blue damsel and black nomad lure, Pete (the feet) Green used mainly a humungus and Ryan Wilson stuck mainly to a team of cormorants or diawl bachs for his tally.
Ian Fong stuck to mops and lures for his 19 fish, Eric Dickie used the bloodworm for his 16 fish which included a lovely 8lb brownie, Ronnie Ewen also had 16 fish mainly on the black nomad lure, Matthew Reilly had 14 fish on the Dennis the Menace buzzer and Semtex lure and Callum McLean had 13 fish on the Rob Roy and yellow dancer lures.
Kevin Walkinshaw and Jim Skilling up from ‘doon sooth’ for a short break had 3 sessions where they both caught between 12 – 16 fish on each occasion using mainly fabs, buzzers and shammies and they were well chuffed with quality of the fish they caught.
Jim Gilmour used mop flies for his 12 fish, Albert Trail stuck to crunchers for 10 fish, Simon Ruddiman had 10 fish on the bloodworm as did Kevin Stewart who instead used okay dokay’s and plain black buzzers.
Other flies that caught between 6 – 9 fish were the pearly cormorant, green flash diawl bach, beaded hares ear, yellow fritz and Montana lure.
They say that eighty per cent of success is by ‘simply showing up’ so why not test the theory by coming down Lochter way for a cast.
Tight lines – SRP 29/11/22
