Value for money...

**MacBean** · 17th March 10, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

Hey now Jock!

This was all well and good when you were just giving AA a hard time - but now that you are talking about stalking browns you're tugging on mine as well. Oh how I would love to cast a few drys at some rising highland trout!

?? Largest trout I ever saw were in the Coeur d Alene River. Huge, and they were biting hooks bated with grapes. That was two days south of the Lake though, and forty years back!

Winter or Spring in the highlands appeals a lot. When is a great time to come, in terms of weather and scenery (assuming off-season )?

**Jock Scot** · 17th March 10, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

Hey now Jock!

This was all well and good when you were just giving AA a hard time - but now that you are talking about stalking browns you're tugging on mine as well. Oh how I would love to cast a few drys at some rising highland trout!

Actually we don't really stalk the fish, they are a bit tricky to see in some of the peat stained waters and wading can be extremely hazardous. Some of the lochs are deeper than the hills(mountains) that surround them and shelve just as steeply! We use just the traditional and traditional sized wet flies like the Invicta, Clan Chief, Zulus, Mallard and Claret and we find them much more effective than some of the modern flies that are so effective down south.We usually fish three flies at a time on an intermediate line(a floater works well too) with a ten or eleven foot rod, it saves a lot of that false casting nonsense.

**pdcorlis** · 17th March 10, 12:43 PM

Wonderful!

**auld argonian** · 17th March 10, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

.We usually fish three flies at a time on an intermediate line(a floater works well too) with a ten or eleven foot rod, it saves a lot of that false casting nonsense.

So I can leave the nine foot six-weight that's too big for the fishing that I do now at home, eh?

I am never going to use that rod!

Best

AA

**Jock Scot** · 17th March 10, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

So I can leave the nine foot six-weight that's too big for the fishing that I do now at home, eh?

I am never going to use that rod!

Best

AA

Many use a nine footer and in many ways that's fine when fishing from a boat and on some of the smaller lochs that will be perfect. Like so many things in life, you have got to work with what you have got.