Down Lochter way, after the passing of the longest day it usually signals to the fish that it’s the time of year for them to be a bit pernickety.
The fish can be responding well to your favourite fly and then for no known reason they won’t look at it or the many others in your box.
Don’t beat yourself up about it as it happens to everyone at some time. The best known advice is to keep fishing trying different flies, depth and locations and as suddenly as they ‘went off’ they will return to at least show some passing interest in your flies.
On the fishing front, things are ticking away nicely with lots of fish seen moving and breaking the surface.
Fishing stalwart Peter Wilson had 16 fish during his Sunday session all mostly on lures, Ken Scott also had 16 but used a team of buzzers which worked consistently well.
Bryan Ross did an evening session in perfect conditions for the dry fly and he has well rewarded with 15 fish, Craig Watson stuck to Klinkhammers, with a yellow one doing particularly well, for his 14 fish.
Davy Wood kept faith with his favourite WSW lure and it didn’t let him down, netting him 14 fish, Bart Laurenson also had 14 fish on a fab and buzzer combination and Ron Chalmers had 14 on dry flies and buzzers.
Other returns were Gary Findlay with 13 on damsels and on 12 fish was Steve Prince on daddy’s and half sedge hogs, John Smith on spiders, Albert Trail on klinkhammers, Bill Wood on buzzers and fabs and Kevin Reid on black gnats and CDC hoppers.
So there really was something for everyone to use in term of flies at this time of year.
We are currently open from 8am -10pm with evening sessions being particularly popular for dry fly enthusiasts.
We will hopefully see you soon at Lochter.
Tight Lines.
S.P 06.07.2022
