April 12th 2014 – Glencorse Reservoir

All of our twenty two members turned up for our outing to Glencorse, we expected the tide to be out, and it was,  but this coupled with a HOOLEY – a cold west blustery wind blowing at 25 MPH and the weather forecast advised it would get stronger about lunch time.  The bailiff advised that…

April 6th 2014 – Coldingham Loch

My first trout fishing trip in 6 months!  I had to remind myself what to do.  There were all the usual extra checks to make sure I hadn’t forgotten anything vital.  In the past I have turned up on the first outing with no wellies (it was pissing down and I had to spend the…

March 29th 2014 – Lake of Menteith

When we arrived at the Lake, it was windy and cold, but, hope springs eternal and it still looked, to an optimist,  promising.  After about an hour on the water, we were drifting in a very cold and blustery east wind. The air temperature and the water temperature were both seven degrees C – but…

March 15th 2014 – Linlithgow Loch

For our first outing of the season, we had much better weather than we did in 2013. I am sure that everyone who had put down for this outing would be remembering the day we had at Glencorse last year: the numbing cold, the white-out, the stopping at lunch-time and the hardy angler who stuck…