3 August 2012

Knocked off my Perch

I was watching Matt Hayes last night fishing Eyebrook reservoir catching some huge perch by spinning soft plastic lures , kind of got me in the mood for some stripy action. So i thought i'd try out my local wee pond this evening. I decided instead of the usual trout sized lures like wooly buggers etc, to give some saltwater sized flies a bash , i packed a few size 4 clousers and surf candies in white and a few in  black. I started off with the clousers but it was slow a change to a white surf candy seemed right up there street.
i then changed to a smaller surf candy and they came thick and fast but just wee fish , so i decided to go back to the size 4 , and then something much bigger took hold , this it felt totally differant then i saw it,  a huge perch, then it thrashed  and was gone arghhhhh!I reckon he might have gone 3lb.

About halve an hour later i did manage a nice'ish  fish a small consolation. i'll be back for him though!



3 comments:

  1. Nice perch Col, bad luck losing the biggie. Thats a really nice pond to have on your doorstep, im still scouting for something similar throuh here.

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  2. cheers Douglas, cant think of much ponds Embra way. maybe fettes pond? Dunsappie, st margarets?think there might be one by Spylaw too?

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  3. There is no fishing allowed at dunsapie or st mags
    but there are a few dotted about I can go look at, fingers crossed.

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