Fishing by making three passes with my boat without success in the White Loch
Fishing by making three passes with my boat without success in the White Loch

Fishing by bailing the boat out, used my new drogue and making three passes without success in the White Loch, stalking in the area with the same result and so watching cricket after a bath at the hotel

After yesterday, I opted to lay in for a leisurely start to the day and breakfast before going out. I still fed and exercised the dog beforehand. Fullish day; fishing in the White Loch but with no positive result. Bailed the boat out, used my new drogue and made three passes at the loch and then walked round the southern bank changing from wet to dry fly as well as I went. I fished the small loch very hard but still had no success. All this despite seeing several very strong rises which left me quite baffled.

I called in on Charlie Sutherland on the way home but still no replacement gearbox had arrived. Dinner after a bath at the hotel and then watched England just lose a dramatic one-day cricket test match to Australia by a very few runs.