Category Archives: Fly fishing for wild brown trout

It was with mixed feelings that I arrived at Loch Ascog on a late September day to round off another season. It’s a place I miss greatly during the closed months. The surroundings were as magnificent as usual as I took them in – blue sky framed dramatic clouds and a fresh North westerly gaveContinue reading “Ascog Curtain Call.”

I usually become very aware of the countdown to the season’s end around this time. This year’s trout season lost almost 3 months to lockdown and it seems what we did get has flown in. This year of course conditions permitting I will be able to fish until the end of October on Loch Eck,Continue reading “Late August.”

It had been too long . Closed season followed by pandemic restrictions had meant that I had not visited beautiful Loch Ascog for 9 months. I love the surroundings and tranquility of this wee loch and it rarely fails to engross me as I fly fish for its small but beautiful wild brown trout. AnotherContinue reading “Return to Ascog”

A short while back I acquired my first vintage cane fly rod. I’ve enjoyed exploring and revisiting different materials used for fishing rods and have found positive and negative factors of all styles. I have a couple of old solid glass spinning rods that are robust and reliable , Carbon that is super light andContinue reading “Cane and (still) Able.”

Whether any further fishing will happen this year is unclear but doubtful, and this is rightly so as we all try to survive the Coronavirus Pandemic. The frustration of not being able to fish after a long closed season is of course nothing compared to the gravity of the life and death situation we findContinue reading “2020- that might have been it!”

I left home in bright but breezy conditions and as I drove up Glen Lean the light and blue sky were inspiring. Keeping a close eye on the twisting , single track road I noticed a buzzard hunting directly overhead. At the same moment the radio played a small tribute to the wonderful soprano JessyeContinue reading “Ending on a high!”

Like many of us I tend to be convinced life was better in the past. Looking back through ‘rose tinted glasses’ is an easy mode to slip into. As a boy I was the keenest of anglers with a real drive to learn and discover as much as I could. I was fit , singleContinue reading “Fine Vintage”

On arrival at the water today things didn’t look promising. The rain was chucking it down , there was virtually no wind and the midgies were clearly having their end of season celebrations. Oh and the boat was 2/3’s full of rainwater. I considered my options over a cuppa under the cover of the car’sContinue reading “A morning at the Upper Dam”

Conditions- moderate warm southerly wind, overcast with brighter spells, turning wet. Tactics – Fly rod 1- floating line, team of 3 wets , Loch Ordie (top) , Bibio Cruncher, (middle) Mayfly Nymph. (Point). Fly rod 2- Intermediate line, Damsel Nymph. I arrived at Loch Ascog around 9.30am, having dropped my oldest son at school andContinue reading “Loch Ascog – A recent fishing report.”

As a boy I was quite literally fishing mad. From hand line fishing and spinning on the Clyde I graduated to trout fishing in small dams, rivers and lochs. In time fly fishing for brown trout became easily my favourite type of angling and this developed into hill loch fishing for wild fish.   Alas asContinue reading “About Argyll Trout Fisher.”