Thursday: Discovering Dapping.
Notes and jottings from a wonderful week in August at the Scourie Hotel www.scouriehotel.com
We went fishing Richard Fiona and I on Loch Duhaid Mor. A stretch of water that stretches both sides of the A894, the road that takes you as far northwest as you can go! We went dabbing
Dabbing is a form of fly-fishing where one is trying to imitate large flying insects carried on lake surfaces on windy days.
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| On the way to the loch side |
The rod and fly set up is designed to stimulate a kicking daddy long legs or other terrestrial insect. Use a busy fly or several of them, attach to twelve foot of silk line or polypropylene and suspend from a thirteen to fifteen foot rod. Hold the rod high so the breeze catches the line. Move the whole rod up and down a bit, the fly drops onto the water driving the trout below mad! The beauty of dapping is that the worse the wind is for classic fly-fishing the better it is for dapping.
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