After getting a real beating ( 15 fish to my one) at Glen Tanar, where my mate fished the squirmy under a bung i tentaively returned to fishing last night.
i thought as it was a lovely day in the highland capital then evening might be nice for a cast - how wrong i was.
Arrived at the loch only to find out that it was blowing an absolute hooley !
Chose to fish the side i thought would be safest casting wise. On went the SLXi and away i went.
this loch is alway a challenge and after about an hour there was a big swirl approximately where my flies were...never felt a touch.
thats it i thought, that was my only chance of the evening ( as it is getting colder and dark much earlier now)
so i switched banks and about 6 casts later, wham. And a decent fish takes to the air.
2 cast later im in again, but with a more modest fish this time.
the sucessful fly was only what i can descibe as the love child of a pearly invicta snatcher and a goats toe - the recipe below but with blue peakcock upfront instead of blue jay. The result of 5 mins at the bench yestarday so well chuffed. I think I will call it the iGoat
