Fishing With Munro

It’s the middle of April and a nearly constant Easterly wind and Jack Frost looking at rearing his unwelcome ways.   That said lots of insects making an appearance.

As such I set out on a rather wind free evening to see if the brown trout where starting to feed on midge hatches.

As I was setting up the wind totally disappeared leaving a mirror like surface.  This is rare on my local as the loch sits about 900 feet above sea level.

That said there was a massive midge hatch underway but absolutely zero trout feeding on the surface, so wets where tied on and I was ready to go.

Sitting on the boat I quickly realised I needed to concentrate on myself.   I was excited to be on the the water with fly rod in hand but fishing seemed the last thing I wanted to do. 

 I found myself lost in my thoughts trying to put things into prospective.   After 10 minutes of watching all the wildlife going about their normal evening routine and listening to the sound of new born lambs calling, I got back to matters at hand.

I quickly realised that the midge coming off where not being fed on by the trout.  So I decided to throw caution to the wind and tied on a Loch Ordie in black.  

Bang brown trout can’t resist the Loch Ordie.   In all a very pleasant evening.   Fish may not have been feeding heavily, but there was lots of fly life coming off the water and was great to see the swallows making the most of the hatch.  

Hope to have more evenings like this this season.