Thursday 27 September 2018

Scourie Thursday : Dapping

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. 

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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