Thought I'd do a wee report on my opening wkend at Loch Earn.

My Dad and I have never done that well on this loch until the end of April so wasn't expecting much action-but I couldnt wait to get out there and get over some of my favourite drifts.

So early on saturday morning we got the boat and the mountains of gear packed and were off.

While setting up the weather was pretty chilly with an easterly wnd but it was quite sunny so ok conditions.

tackling up

We spent the first half of the day drifting along the north shore, working our way up the loch towards St. Fillans in the east. I was on the HiD with mini lures and wets, my dad on the Di3 with similar flies. We didnt get a touch and the fish finder was showing up the occasional fish down around the 70ft mark - possibly char. Eventually we made our way back towards Lochearnhead and made some drifts through Edinample bay. Just at the end of our drift as I cast in amoungst some huge boulders a fish grabbed hold of my red holo Cormorant and i thought id at last got my 1st brownie of the '08 season-but it turned out to be a rainbow escapee around 1lb-welcome none the less.


That was it for the day.

On the sunday we eventually decided to head back out for more punishment!
Same lines and flies were put on and we headed out to some different areas of the loch. Still no fish to were willing so we headed back in desparation to were I'd caught the fish the day before (we'd seen some guys spinning taking fish from the same area too). The wind (now a north easterly) allowed some nice drifts onto the shore and as we drifted onto the bouldery shore I got an arm-wrenching take and was into good fish on a Doobry. As it threw itself out of the I saw it was a nice brownie-at last!!


This fish took in exactly the same spot as the rainbow the day before. The rest of the day saw us thrashing the water to a froth for no return! Ah well its the fishing not the catching. Had a great weekend and canny wait till the weather warms up and the flies get on the go......

heres some pics of loch earn scenery.




Cheers,

TS

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Like the report ts just like yourself me and mate of mine had weekend on loch awe same kind of results as yourself no brownies just 4 rainbows biggest 3lb smallest 1lb weather just the same as well. Good start to the season thanks again for report and all the best for the season

Cracking report TS, you did alot better than me on the opening day !!

Great report, nice picks T.S.

FF

I was out on the club boat on sat, and after a while managed to land a few fish....alas on bait , not fly. With the water temp at 3 deg, the fish ain't going to be chasing much, hence a lot of people trolling/spinning blanked or only had 1 fish. Some large 'bows caught (on bait mainly). All my fish came from 50 feet of water, that seemed to be where a lot of the fish were, biggest 3lbs 12, but a few over 5 lb were landed. Kinda hard to get flies down that deep!
All mine looked to be well overwintered fish, in nice condition. Kept 6 returned another 4. No sign of either charr or browns though i hear 1 was landed at 7lbs. Nice photos, well done on catching on the fly, I would have blanked.

Kreid I remember seeing you on the sat. were you fishin near the cages? Yeah Alec told us worm was doin well so my dad tried that on the sunday but it still didnt help us!! I tried chuckin out some flies on a Di8 and lettin them drift behind the boat but again this didnt work. Still I was just glad the wind had dropped enough to get out!

Well done though, those look like some nice 'bows.

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well, i was further away than some! I was in front of the jetty, off to the right in the grey boat, all fish on popped up maggot.