While staying with Mick, we managed to get a short afternoon on Loch Talla.
A view looking down Talla, with spawning stream in the foreground and the Dam at the far end
The Loch was truly stunning and had been dammed off over a 100 years ago, for water supply to Edinburgh.
We used one of the boats and drifted along the shore towards the south bay. I had a 3 fly cast with a Doobry on the top, yellow invicta in the middle and a black pennel on the point.Fish came fast and furious and my first 8 came to the invicta!
In the end I probably had over a dozen with my first fish being the largest which was over a pound.
The fish were real beauties with lovely warm brown colours and some had big large red spots towards there bellies. Mick had said that they were probably feeding on sedge the evening before, hence the fondness of the invicta.
As we had to pack up early for the drive home, we had a look further up the loch and noticed some olives in numbers leaving the woods and descending on the water and some nice trout making the most of them. What a shame we had to leave!! Would love to get back there!
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