Lochter Report - Fab For Feb at Lochter
Down Lochter way there is a pervading sense of relief that weather wise, February has barely shown its teeth .They say that February yields a ‘lazy cold’ and the sun occasionally ‘slips through to remind us its still there.’
On the fishing front laziness was not to the fore as you had to have your wits about you as our fish were in feeding and fighting mood seemingly encouraged by the milder weather.
We had another week of surging angler numbers which was good to see with plenty of our home grown trout in 3lb – 6lb category being caught, these having the hardest sustained fighting ability of all weight category’s. So that’s good news also.
The further good news is that there is no bad news as far as the returns went with many happy customers in the 20 plus category.Thomas Wishart accomplished this using mainly an olive damsel, a resurgent Fred McCally stuck with mainly his favourite apps bloodworm, Kevin McDonnell caught most of his on a white nomad lure and Paul Ingram kept faith with his classic cormorant and buzzer combination.
Graeme Duthie fished his apps bloodworm for 16 fish,Rob Wishart varied between an olive bunny leech and pearly cormorant for 14 fish and also on that number were Charlie Will on the fab and diawl bach combination, Phil Elrick who had one of his best days using assorted cormorants and Colin Taylor on either a Montana lure or mini humongous.
Other fine effort were Richard Parley on 12 fish using a white mop, Albert Trail on 12 on cormorants, Nick Begg on 10 on mops and stalking bugs, Kris Wright on 10 with the apps bloodworm, Davy Reid on 9 with cormorants and okay dokay and James Masson on 8 using the blue flash damsel.
So fingers crossed that the fishing and the weather stay in perfect harmony for the weeks ahead.
Tight lines – SRP 15/2/2
