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Jim, thanks for your list of flies. I'll admit to fishing a pink blob occasionally - good aren't they! I see the rio midge tip is a floater with a 1 metre intermediate sink tip. I might be tempted come my birthday - any tips on fishing with it would be interesting to see........FF2

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The midgetip is handy, fish it like a floater dead slow with the usual nymphs, or in a wind again like a floater but youll find the line grips the water and dosnt skate as much as a pure floater. In aflat calm it gives you a chance to fish the flies near the surface with less disturbance, its a great line honest, mind you if you know any one with an old clear intermediate, you could chop ayard of it, put on some loops and make one for a try ,(before you shell out the 47. 50 that is)

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Thanks - I've got some of those sinking leaders that attach to floating lines but none are intermediate - I may buy one or chop up an old intermediate and give it a go. Will let you know how I get on but it will be a while if the weather stays like this!

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not at all took youngest son out to the other side of aberdeen yesterday, first trout that he has cast to himself 4lb , now wants to pack in school and be a full time guide, at 11 no less. Get out amonst them I say.

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jim doyle:

not at all took youngest son out to the other side of aberdeen yesterday, first trout that he has cast to himself 4lb , now wants to pack in school and be a full time guide, at 11 no less. Get out amonst them I say.

Time for a bit of "er, like, er, non-apparent" parental non-advice, Jim.

 

Guides, in my experience, even the very best (here and abroad), end up loathing (sooner, rather than later) not only the 'meat-'n'-one-veg' (i.e. the clients), but fishing itself. Keep him fishing for fish, Jim, not for glory or for pecuniary reward. Just do all you can, in a Non-Cool-Dad sorta way, to get him out there when he wants and to allow him to make of fishing what he will. Good luck!

 

[ 01. March 2005, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: Paul Boote ]

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Thanks paul, its awhile since we spoke,just before your first trip after masheer I believe, I was being a little frivolus with my comments on roberts asperations, he would volanteer for a trip to mars if it meant a day out of school. Ive taken both kids fishing for as long as they have been able to walk, sunday was the first time he had started to cast , instead of just retreving one of my casts. The eldest, kevin, is very proficent and has taken his love of fishing to the point of getting a job on a fish farm which he loves. Neither youngster has been forced to fish but Ive always tried to take them places that are interesting and where theyve a chance of a fish, its worked up to now.

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