Hi Guys

This is only my second season since i started river fishing and up until Friday id only ever fished one river the Carron (Falkirk) Been loving it and learning loads !

On Friday a friend of mine invited me to join him exploring a feeder burn up in the highlands i jumped at the chance to gain more experince on another water. I was armed with my 9' 3wt Vision Cult .............

All i can say is WOW ! Love it Clearest water ive ever seen ! Not only did i catch but also my first river fish on a dry fly tied by my own hand too And the scenery was breath taking.

First fish on the day fell to my friend on a dry in a very deep dark pool !



He took another four fish from the deep pool all on drys ! Note how dark it is.

My first fish fell to a March Brown spider on the dropper note the colour i caugt it 20 yards down stream from the deep pool !



Note the lovely white stripe on the anal fin, every fish we caught from this little burn had it.

The clearest water ive ever fished ! And its amazing how shallow it looked ........even more surprising just how deep it really was !



Later on after watching my friend taking fish after fish on the dry, i put my wet flys away and played with an Elk caddis, taking my first river fish on the dry within seconds



Had a great afternoon up there sheep , Heather, fish !

My friend had about 15 fish all to drys ! I had 3 fish on march brown spider, 2 on the Elk caddis , 1 on a PTN, lost one on my pimped pennel, lost another fish too and had 3 good tugs !

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Englander

"Barbless since 2008"

Vision GT Four catapult 9' 6#
Vision GT Four SW 9' 9#
Vision 3 Zone 9' 5#
Vision Cult 9' 3#
Shakespeare Trion 9' 5/6#
Cortland Endurance 9' 6#
Shakespeare Expedition float tube
Vosseler DC3 reel
Okuma Helios 8/9 reel
Greys G series 3/4 reel
Snowbee Geo 3/4 reel

Great stuff Englander.
These are the type of burns I learned to fish in, often with the upstream worm at ultra short range.
Tends to make you a good stalker of fish as these bu88ers dont give you a second chance.

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It is in truth not glory,nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting,but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with his life.(Declaration of Arbroath, 1320)

Great quality fish Englander.
I'd keep quiet about the sheep, it's frowned upon you know...

Great fish, small burns are lovely.

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Eddie
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
Voltaire

Very nice Englander!
I like the rod!

Bobby

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"Tight lines from Vermont where the winters are long the fish are wild and the women are good looking."

Thats a proper highland burn!
the number of times i have thought it was only 1 foot deep and walked in to discover its 3 foot deep is just awesome!
regards
bert