Where is Jock Scot?

[CDNSushi]

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[Tobus]

I have worn my kilt out on the moor once for old time's sake------never again! I stood in the same butt that my father lost "the kilt pin" in. I have stood in it many times over the years, but never in the kilt before. A strange thing happened, the clip that fastened the pin came undone----its never done that before ,or since --------and it was only a wee bit of elastic band around the "prong" that stopped me loosing it again some 60 years after father lost it in the same place! Wierd?

'Twas the wee folk. They want that pin.

[English Bloke]

Isn't that the strangest thing... Nice to hear from you Jock. Glad you're having a good season. Shame you couldn't get to Rumney Folk Fest, you'd have enjoyed it.

[ForresterModern]

Just like fishing down a pool, then. Yes I can do that!

Missed you Jock, but then I have not exactly been omnipresent myself of late.

RE: fishing down the pool, that is yet another difference between activities that seem similar but are done quite differently on either side of the pond. Over there I would expect to creep the bank stalking my slippery prey until I spotted it on the rise, then making a couple false casts to stretch out and measure my line before dropping my dry fly a few feet upstream from his lie, or maybe draggingly trail my wetfly diagonally across his vision from a cast 25 or so feet above and beyond the rise using the current to lead it to him. Over here I would work such a pool from below to above, entering the stream in mid riffle and waders to cast at the tail of the flats with a dry fly, possibly with a dropper emerger below, and then work my way up the center casting to either bank and the center current, maybe switching from a mayfly dry pattern to a caddis dry and end by drifting a nymph or emerger dredging the depths of the pool at the tail of the next riffle run, likely spending hours walking my way UP stream without ever laying wet boot on dry land, unless the need to locate a "thirsty" bush arose.

Fishing, like the english language, yet another thing we have in common but that separates us again. I would relish learning your tricks and technique while tromping the fen wi'ye someday my friend.

[Jock Scot]

I am quite familiar with the methods that you describe, Jeff, but for salmon we generally fish downstream. Now if you were fishing the more genteel streams, the Test, the Hampshire Avon, Wylie, Nadder, or the Itchen for example, of the South of England for trout then you would be quite at home, although wading can be frowned upon in places. There is a wonderful expression used to describe these particular rivers: "Clear as gin and twice as expensive". Of course, fishing a dry fly traditionally for trout on any river, then casting upstream is the way to go. Funnily enough the British/World fishing terminology and methods seems more common and more easily understood by all, than anything else I know.

[TheOfficialBren]

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Funnily enough the British/World fishing terminology and methods seems more common and more easily understood by all, than anything else I know.

I think that the motivation for catching fish is pretty universal, too, my friend.