The burn I cut my teeth on as a boy is known locally as the Boag, here many a happy hour was spent after school and at the weekends fishing for it's pretty little brownies, firstly with the worm before progressing to the fly rod. These days I all to often overlook it's charms in favour of other waters with bigger trout and today was going to be no different. I intended to spend the afternoon on another burn in the area but found it running quite high with questionable clarity, after trying a few its normally productive pools without a touch decided to up sticks and head for the Boag instead.
i was pleased to see the water clarity was good on the Boag as i was a little worried it might still be murky after last weeks rain.
its always a good confidence booster to when that first trout is landed, this one took a glister bug.
the journey upstream took me through a tunnel
i picked up a few trout on the brown wire nymph
a public footpath follows much of the burn upstream, a lot of dog walkers today, i was about to fish this pool before i was joined by two golden retrievers who bounded through it to see what i was up too!
the most public stretch of the burn wasn't that productive to be honest so i made haste through it until i was away from the path.
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sport picked up again with another couple of trout to end an enjoyable afternoon on my old stomping ground, think next time i'll avoid the most public stretch altogether and get of the beaten track further upstream.
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nice one bri enjoyed the pics and some lovely marked trout. is that tunnel new?
ReplyDeleteThose some pretty browns. Good call to fish your home waters.
Deletecheers Col, no its been there for decades, the road passes over it at Bankton.
Deletecheers bri , i know where you are , i didnt realise it looked like that inside.
DeleteThanks Mark, its good to have a few different burns in the area, the difficulty is choosing which one!
ReplyDeleteWonderful wild fish.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the air and water temps there?
Hi Alan, couldn't tell what the water temp was, but the air temperature would be about 10 Celsius I guess, this morning there's a light frost on the ground but it,s looking like its going to be a lovely day.
ReplyDeletewell done Brian a bit easier going than my exploits by the look of things.
ReplyDeleteAye George, no gorge walking involved!
DeleteThis wee gem runs at the back of my Mothers house so I often sneak out for a quick cast which is usually rewarding. I was out the day before you Brian testing a few fixed line tactics for something I'm working on and as usual the burn was generous to me.
ReplyDeleteI hope to be fishing the burns a bit more this season, usually quieter than the main river.
Aye it's a great wee burn right enough Douglas, were lucky to have all these burns close by, great places to spend a few hours.
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