Mid-summer on the Lake sounds good on paper. What about on the water? The wind was from the west, strong, swirling and squally. We had cloud cover, but it was still very bright, with reflections from the water surface such that you could not see your flies. The air temperature was 15°C and the water…
For me this evening session started at 0845 hrs. This was when Ken, the fishery manager, rang to ask if we had a day session or an evening session. He then went on to say that Trevor and Garry had arrived thinking it was a day session. However, as it was an evening session they…
It’s July and we were sitting in boats on Linlithgow Loch, cold, damp and looking forward to four o`clock. We had a west wind that was cold and blustery; we had bright sun and some cloud cover. The air temperature was only 12 Celsius and with a water temperature of 16 Celsius, we were in…
This was the usual Sunday timing of 12 noon to 7:00 p.m. On arrival, conditions were well nigh perfect, with a temperature of 14 degrees, good cloud cover and only a slight breeze. Unfortunately heavy rain and a strengthening wind were forecast mid afternoon. The wind didn’t arrive, but the heavy rain certainly did. Despite…
How to start this report, do I tell you about the very heavy rain that was pelting down as I left home, or do I tell you about the sea fog that was drifting down the loch when I arrived, or about the cold NE wind that made me wish I had a spare fleece…
The kind weatherman promised a nice warm day, with cloud cover and no rain. We did not get any rain… suppose he is happy with one out of three. What we got was a cold, swirling wind. However, it did feel warm when the sun came out, but it got very cold again when a…
This was our first evening session this year, and perhaps it was a mistake to have an evening session so early in the year. When I arrived, very early, the air was 19.5 Celsius if you were in a sheltered spot. However, when you moved away from the shelter and into the strong east wind,…
The weather forecast for Sunday was promising: between six and nine degrees, cloud cover and a nice wind for drifting. Would we get another day like Coldingham, with so many rising fish that you did not know which one to cast towards? (No we did not!) I was living in hope of another dry fly…
The weather was just grand for gardening on the Sunday morning of our first outing of the season, bright blue sky and a light wind from the south-west; mind you, the wind had a very cold edge to it. The air temperature was only 3.5 centigrade at the start. However, it was still super to…
The French say, “We should be very careful what we wish for, for we will surely get it.” Well I and everyone else on previous outings have been wishing for better weather, and boy did we get it – we got the hottest day of the year so far. Not a cloud in the sky,…