Not a lot to report from opening day. A few escapee rainbows caught. One hit on the downrigger from a most probable ferox trout. Overall had a great day trolling Scotland's lochs

Opening Day Tommorow

Tomorrow is the opening day of the 2009 trout season. I wish all anglers tight lines and best wishes for the season.

I will be out trolling on the opening day. Lets hope that the fish like the lures as much as I like them.

2 days to go

There are now 2 days to go the opening of the 2009 season. Lets hope the weather stays reasonable for Sunday 15th March.

Tommorow I will be getting the boat etc, ready for my 1st trip of the season on Sunday.

3 days to Opening Day

Only 3 days to the opening of the 2009 season. Here are a couple of the spoons that I use for trolling. I use these either flatline trolling or on a slider when using the downrigger.

Rapala Lures for 2009

Here are some of the Rapala Lures that I will be trying during 2009.

Purpledecent Deep Tail Dancer

Brown Trout rapala Countdown and Floating

Purpledecent Shad Rap





Countdown Rainbow Trout

Opening day

The opening of the 2009 season is only 5 day off. I am looking forward to getting back out on the loch's.

I have been busy adding pages to the website. it is growing day by day. Click the link to have a look www.trollingscotlandslochs.co.uk

I wish all who are venturing out on the 15th tightlines for 2009.

Trolling Scotland

Downrigger

A Downrigger is a great accessory when trolling. The Canon Easy Troll is one of the most popular downriggers. There are many different makes and styles to choose from. Downriggers are available either manual control or electric.

The rod sits in the down rigger holder (poker rod) and the line is set out 30-40yds. The line is clipped to an 8lb lead weight attached to the downrigger cable. The line is attached to a release clip which is set to allow the line to release when a fish is hooked. The tension needs to be enough to set the hook, but release the line once the fish is hooked. The downrigger weight is then lowered to the desired depth. When you are trolling and a fish hits the lure, ideally the fish will be hooked and the line released from the clip. All you have to do is wind up the downrigger weight and play the fish.

2009 Season

One week to go until the new season. I am hoping to be able to venture out on opening day. I hope to be able to post some photographs of a fish.

Tightlines

Luhr Jensen Diver

This is one of my favourite bits of tackle. I often use a diver when trolling for ferox trout.

This true-tracking, diving sinker/planer has an adjustable positive trip mechanism. It sinks around 1ft for every 2ft of line that you have out. Once a fish hits the lure, the diver trips making it easier to reel the fish in. The diver makes it easier to fish depths unexplored before. You can use kynoch's, tomic lures, rapala's or any lure. I would not recommend using a deep diving lure with this diver. If you use a deep diving lure then it would be guess work to exactly what depth the lure is fishing. I like to use a floating rapala when fishing with a diver. I often set the depth of fishing to around 45 feet. The beauty of the diver is you can send it down to where the fish are - 10 feet, 20 feet or 60 feet

www.trollingscotlandslochs.co.uk

Work has been commenced on building and producing the new website -www.trollingscotlandslochs.co.uk There are now pages accessible including the photo gallery with some images availabe to view. More images will be added as they become availabe. There are a lot more pages to be added in the near future.

Tightlines

This was one of my days during 2008 trolling for Ferox. A fish has just hit the lure and the rod tip is bouncing like mad.

The fish has taken a pearl & blue Tomic lure on a diver. The lure,was fishing at around 35 feet.

After a really good fight a ferox trout of approxamately 8lbs was safely netted, unhooked and returned to the loch.

I return all my ferox, at the side of the boat, without lifting the net out of the loch. I will try to take some photographs of the fish I catch during 2009 and I will post the photographs on the blog.

Here are some of my 5 inch Tomic lures that I use for spring salmon, pike and ferox when fishing some of the larger lochs.

I often fish these with the downrigger, divers or with leadcore. These are the largest lure that I tend to fish. Some anglers use lures similar to these in sizes up to 7 inches.

One of my favourite tomics in this box is the Artic char Pattern (4th row down) this lure was responsible for taking some cracking ferox trout during 2008.