Today as the weather was favourable, I loaded up the canadian and headed north through Callander then Lix Toll, Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy and eventually found myself on the Black Mount / Rannoch Moor, home of Loch Ba.
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I got the Van parked a bit up from the Loch on the East side of the road and unloaded the Canadian. I got my new fly gear sorted - some of which was recently stolen from the house - loaded it into the boat and headed for the water. It was about a two hundred meter slog to get there but it was a cracking evening and trout were slurping at emerger's so it was looking good.
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Sorted out the rod and my gear and launched in the river which runs below the road from the west loch to the east. I made my first cast with three flies Bushy Bob, Black spider and JC snatcher with no luck. Another two casts and I was into my first fish, a lovely wee Broonie too small to keep but a great fighter all the same.
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So it continued as I paddled my way around the loch like one of the Voyageurs of Old Canada trout after trout all too small to keep.
As I made my way further into the wilderness the trout began to rise freely and some of them were obviously a bit bigger than the standard so in desperate times, desperate measures must be employed. I reached into my Rucksack found my Orvis no rust dry fly box and extracted a size 14 Black-Don.
A couple of casts later and a reasonable trout rose in front of the canoe - what could I do. I picked the flies from the water estimated the distance and plopped my cast right on it's nose. Bang - fish on and what a fight for such a wee wild troot. It was all over the place and trying it's hardest to strip line. At one point it even jumped about a foot out of the water.
Well the troot finally came to the net and here's a wee picture before it went back.
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Paddled back up the river disembarked and disengaged - cracking September's outing.
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Loaded up the canoe and was back in Cumbernauld in about 1 and 1/2 hours. There might be monster's in Loch Ba but the wee Troot give a monster fight and all for free - except the £30 diesel to get there.
Cracking, The Black-Don rides again.
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