Return To Boulder Creek

[Wildfisher]

Heading up to Boulder Creek tomorrow. First time there for over a decade.

Hell I even have a permit. 

I must be mellowing. 

[Guest_8]

 

Fantastic, enjoy Fred.

[Wildfisher]

I came ........
I saw ..........

..........  then went home. Don't even ask ............... 

[Guest_8]

Crikey. 

[Wildfisher]

I had to go back and lay that ghost to rest. I did get 2 small fish on the nymph before I gave up, but Boulder Creek is the toughest river I know. It is massively physically demanding with lethal wading and steep, forested, hellish banks. So hard to access the water. Shame because it is a really wild and bonnie place.

10 years since I last fished it and that will be my last time. It's just too physically demanding for a 70 year old. Sometimes you just have to accept these things. One thing everyone of you will notice as you get old is the balance goes and for Boulder Creek that's just plain dangerous. I fell there in 2012 and ended up in hospital with a broken hand.

Nope, time to accept I'll just have to do more poofy loch fishing now. 

[burnie]

At least you've been Fred, I've still not been yet, planning on the Backwater next week if my car is back on the road.

[superscot]

did you video Fred

[Wildfisher]

No vid Colin, hardly  worth it. Just an auld mannie grunting and wheezing   

[Guest_8]

And that local river of yours is lovely too.

[Wildfisher]

Boulder  Creek is a long drive from where I now live, so it was never going to be a regular gig anyway. I'll stick with the Don now and the Angus glens when I can get on the water which is not always easy.

This was Boulder Creek 10 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-U3FnJoHww