It’s time to dust off your 5 weights and tie up some Hendricksons because the Louts are going a fishin’.  May 7 - 10 at the West Branch Angler where we’ll whip the water into a fine froth while cursing loudly and dreaming of the easy fish in Cairn’s Pool.  Pony up men, and confirm to Float King to reserve your space now.  Deposit requests will be forthcoming once I have a head count.  What to tie, you ask?  Hendricksons and more Hendricksons.  Sizes 14 and 16 mainly and in both light and dark (female and male) in CDC and parachute styles.  For nymphs (listen up Reverend), I like Pheasant Tails and Hare’s Ears with a dark turkey wingcase.  Same sizes as above.  There are also good caddis hatches, but you can buy them at the shop if you’d like.  We should be smack in the middle of the hatch and can expect some decent action in the afternoons.  Please also have Rusty Spinners in 12, 14 and 16 for evening and possibly morning action.

Here’s a big hint I’ve learned from my many trips to the D during this hatch.  Once you see duns on the water, tie one on and add a dropper like an unweighted pheasant tail nymph dangling off the back of the dun’s hook about a foot or so.  Deadly when fished just under or in the surface film!!!

“Louts, wha hae wi Wallace bled,
take winter breaks for verse instead…”

It’s that time again when Trout Louts everywhere raise their beakers and cheer the poet’s Immortal Memr’y and all that rot. Our 2008 Burnsnicht gathering has some serious work to do to improve upon last year’s event. But if you weren’t there, you’ll never know what you missed. Suffice it to say, no fish were harmed in the making of this party. True, some English was mangled and a few too many bottles of the noble Lagavulin drained quickly and without proper genuflection. But hell, there was a bagpiper and cigars! Louts who attended will tell you it was exactly our kind of evening.

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