The day rifle zeroing and fishing at Thormaid missing one, hooking and losing another that I negligently had taken for granted in defiance of using a landing net
I was awake at 6.00am, an hour earlier than my intended time, and so bathed, shaved and got out to feed and exercise Sam before breakfast. A nice meal and then off to Thormaid with Nigel, loading all the guns and fishing tackle into my car. Once we arrived, I left Nigel to zero the three rifles whilst I took Sam up to the White Loch where we tried a bit of fishing together. Sam had been very excited by the rifle fire to start with but later settled down and got more used to it. I had to go and help Nigel later as he was making very heavy weather of the zeroing - using targets all too much of a distance away and making no use of the telescope to save the legwork back and forwards.
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Eventually, we got all three rifles zeroed at 3.00pm and this left a couple of hours fishing for us both. I missed one, hooked and lost another that I negligently had taken for granted in defiance of using a landing net. Back to the hotel via a garage for petrol and then, after a nice meal had an early night. I had developed a very poor sore throat whilst driving up and this had got worse today and I was also very tired after a couple of exhausting days. Today was dry but cloudy with a cold wind from the north-east. Down south, the weather was very wet and windy so we were lucky to be in Caithness.