{"id":278,"date":"2010-11-21T05:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/?p=278"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:54:06","slug":"the-barracks-pool-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/the-barracks-pool-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barracks&#8217; Pool Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"There's something out there ...\" src=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Theres-something-out-there-...-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Theres-something-out-there-...-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Theres-something-out-there-....jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the\u00a0best of starts, really.<\/p>\n<p>Here I was, with the bride to be, in the heart of the Scottish highlands, trying to pronounce the Gaelic names of my dad\u2019s Scottish ancestors and getting to know the new Pommie in laws.<\/p>\n<p>In a lay bye caf\u00e9 en route to Loch Rannoch, we had seen our first kilts, casually worn in an everyday fashion, by large, bearded, redheaded men. Standing behind another, more conventionally dressed redheaded couple chatting away in the coffee queue, I observed to my future father in law that, despite my genealogical research, I couldn\u2019t understand a word of this local Gaelic. I was trying to be modest. You know, to make an impression.<\/p>\n<p>He replied, deadpan \u2013 \u201cThat\u2019s not surprising, really John, they\u2019re talking in German\u201d. \u00a0Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-279\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Lets try in front of this rock\" src=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Lets-try-in-front-of-this-rock-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Lets-try-in-front-of-this-rock-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Lets-try-in-front-of-this-rock.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rannoch region had been devastated by English government troops after the 1745 rebellion, when the Redcoats built their barracks at the headwaters of Loch Rannoch, on the River Tummel.<\/p>\n<p>This barracks, presumably with a few more recent add-ons, is now the home of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. Fortunately for me, Lord Pearson has a ghillie called Ian Nelson, who told me that a pike, in Barracks\u2019 Pool, near Lord Pearson\u2019s home, had been \u2018creating merry hell\u2019 with the local trout.<\/p>\n<p>So, the next afternoon, armed with a new fluorocarbon leader, complete with wire trace and my best Aussie Murray Cod frog fly, I appeared nervously at the Barracks\u2019 Pool. Also in tow were Jeanine\u2019s parents, out for the drive, and looking a little sceptical.<\/p>\n<p>It looked up to four to five metres deep, and had some huge brown boulders right in the middle, easily visible in the whiskey-coloured water a metre or so down below the surface \u2013 exactly the right sort of cover for an ambush predator like the Australian Murray Cod, and, I guessed, for some Tummel pike.<\/p>\n<p>I flicked out a floating line from my eight weight Loomis and popped the artificial frog behind, and then in front of, all the biggest rocks in the middle of the pool, working my way systematically upstream, trying to arouse the territorial instincts of the creatures I knew were down there. I gradually became totally absorbed by that wonderful combination of science, nature and art that is fly-fishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Man-with-big-pike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-282 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Man with big pike\" src=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Man-with-big-pike-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Man-with-big-pike-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Man-with-big-pike.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nearer the banks, I\u2019d plop the frog fly gently down on the water, like it dropped from a branch, then two bloops, drift downstream, slow retrieve, then pause like the frog was injured or tired \u2026 then repeat a metre further upstream.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of those days when my cast seemed to work, no snags or tangles, the line shot out perfectly, the fly hit exactly the right spot \u2026 one bloop, two bloops, then BANG!<\/p>\n<p>One of the nastiest looking predator pike I\u2019d ever seen hit my little frog fly with such upward force it was momentarily airborne, starting a 20 minutes tug of war between me and what can only be described as an underwater thug, which had to be turned and then steered away from every underwater obstacle in the pool, until he was finally pulled onto an exposed ledge of the rock I\u2019d been standing on, with his massively disproportionate jaws still trying to chew his way through my wire trace. Seven pounds of angry trout-eating pike were out of the pool for good. I could almost hear the trout cheering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mangled-frog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-283\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Mangled frog\" src=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mangled-frog-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mangled-frog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mangled-frog.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The deer haired body of my fly had been mangled and it had lost one eye, the wire trace was kaput, and I was exhausted. But I\u2019d proved a point. I was fishing with a fly I\u2019d picked myself, in untried waters, with a totally different species, based only on what I\u2019d been able to learn in another country on the other side of the world. It felt great.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home to Australia, I asked my beloved how I was travelling with the in-laws, after the trip, what with a few minor hitches, namely that I was 20 years\u2019 older, divorced, with three adult children, protestant, and an Aussie to boot. Little things like that.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I was fine. I\u2019d passed muster. The reason?<\/p>\n<p>The fly fishing afternoon on the Barracks\u2019 Pool had convinced the in laws that anyone who could master such a graceful form of artistic endeavour as fly fishing, was good enough for their only daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another reason, dear reader, to go fly-fishing whenever you can. And try to take, not only your beloved, but the in laws as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright John Black 2007. Pictures by the lovely Dr Jeanine McMullan. First published in FlyLife Short Casts.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t the\u00a0best of starts, really. Here I was, with the bride to be, in the heart of the Scottish highlands, trying to pronounce the Gaelic names of my dad\u2019s Scottish ancestors and getting to know the new Pommie in laws. 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