A blessing in disguise
“There are two types of flightponds: rest ponds or morning flightponds; and feed ponds or evening flightponds.”
Those words appeared some time ago in the editorial of Shooting Times and are, of course, correct. Indeed, written by so knowledgeable a pen, they should be. But last November, I had a successful dawn flight on a patch of water that had hitherto been shot only in the evening.
On a shoot in Morayshire, there is a rushy depression in a field. This holds more or less floodwater depending upon the wetness of the season. But even in a wet winter, the water is nowhere more than knee deep, and most of it is much shallower. It
