Back On The Local At Last. Scottish Small Stream Fly Fishing 

Yes not the best season I can remember! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment. 😊

Thanks, you are most kind. Enjoy the rest of the season. 😊

Aye it's been a tough one for sure, feels like it's been shorter than normal, we were a bit spoiled in 2021, around here anyway. 😊

Yeah, soft hackle dries can be very effective and are more durable than CDC flies. 👍

Thanks. What I try to do is engage with people with the continuous commentary and just show it as it is - and I most certainly do not always catch fish! Just an old duffer out with his fly rod! 😁

@@wildfisher understated mate.. I always look forward to what’s coming next …you and caorach kept my spirits and motivation up 😂during our closed season …

Many thanks for your comment Phil. 😊

Well done, 2lb is a great grayling for sure. You just never know with fishing, every year is different. Who knows what next year will bring?

It's been a crazy season, I've never known such a long downtime. Another nice fish Fieldsman, your putting the rest of us to shame👍

Thanks Steve! 😊

Glad you enjoyed it. You will get fish when it fines down a bit! 😊

Hi Dean and thanks for the comment. It's been really dry here, not a normal complaint for Scotland! You guys are lucky to have bass, bluegills and a wider range of warm water species to fish for, here in Scotland it's more limited, trout everywhere but other species are more limited, especially here in the north east. For most fly fishers it's more or less trout or nothing. Hopefully the last few weeks of the season will be better. 😊

Thanks TK 😊

Thank you. 😊

Yeah, we don't always catch fish. 😊 I watch a lot of fishing videos and usually the fish are the part I find least interesting. I'm more interested in the river or lake and what the angler does and has to say.

Thanks for commenting. I use polarised glasses but they only help to some extent. Not much can cancel out those reflected clouds. 😊

Indeed! The river is in much better fettle now after some rain. A few of the members have been out and it is fishing better. I will get out again before the end of the season. 😊

Indeed it was! 😀

Getting too slow Robert! 😀

Hope you enjoy it James!

Thank you Richard glad you enjoyed it! 😊

Interesting. How are the water levels at The Big Loch?

I know how you feel. I'm 70 in December and feel time is catching up with me! 😁

@@wildfisher Good to be getting out fly fishing at 70 in wild places and still active! Hope I am able to......30 odd years left to fish I hope!! Tightlines.

The way I was fishing I'd need it James. 😁

We still get hatches of upwings Chris, but like most places they are not what they were. It's only when I go up and fish The Don or Deveron that I remember what hatches should be like. The local river is all on farmland so diffuse pollution with high nitrogen and phosphate levels don't help. The rivers that come off the Grampians - North and South Esks - have impressive hatches of a wide variety of bugs including impressive numbers of March Browns. I've never seen those on the local. The amount of duckweed on the river right now is incredible - never seen it quite so dense before on running water.

Aye, a total wipe out Archie. 😁