Went up to harelaw today to pick up a raffle prize that Alex kindly donated to the world team raffle .The weather was terrible, winds were gusting up to 30mph and the occasional downpour. I didn't have any tackle with me except for waterproofs Alex gave me a loan of a rod ,floating line and i begged a dry fly which was met with a "in those conditions" and of i went .To cut a long story short in 2hrs from the bank with a dry in those conditions i ended up with 9 fish and lost a few more .The fish that i got were fin perfect and were among some of the best fighting fish i have came across If any of you haven't tried Harelaw yet i would certainly recomend you give it a go.

Cheers Alex for you hospitality m8
James litster

i will keep asking this question ,why isn't this place over run with anglers ? ,it just doesn't make sense as this is without doubt the most talked about still-water around at the moment, with what Ive experienced and heard time and time again the hardest fighting fish also.
someday they will take it on board Alec mate.

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dont you just love nature

I'm heading up tonight for the early morning session at 3:30am, hope I do half as well as you did James.

I also hope those winds have died down or it's going to be a pretty quick drift.

James and andy were both struggling to catch until i gave them some guidance on where they were going wrong............

Aye right.

Glad you enjoyed it mate , still very windy but hopefully it will drop by tonight ,
alot of fish rising from the dam wall, wind is still high, i managed a few after you left on the cdc hopper.
The early session will go ahead regardless.

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I HATE BUNGS.........

Alex mate you should have ventured out for a cast while we were there and you could have shown the two of us how to fish the dry fly properly>... Had a great couple of hours and if anyone wants a bit of a fling with dries just give us a shout... Off for a beer and a sleeeeeeeeep Thanks for the day lads