Start of another new fishing season with our usual first club outing of the year to Linlithgow. The fishing and weather in March can be a lottery at the best of times and for the past week there had been heavy rain. However, it was remarkably mild with temperatures around 8°C and the loch was…
Dougie Skedd reports… Rescheduled outing from earlier in the year. Only five of us could make the new date but we were game to give it a go. Conditions could have been better, but could have been a lot worse. The clouds were racing by overhead but down on the water it was quite fishable. …
This was another one of our outings that had to be rearranged due to bad weather earlier in the year – this season seems to have been punctuated by a few more windier days than usual. Unfortunately, this date did not suit a lot of our club and only 4 hardy anglers made it for…
It was a cracking morning up in the Pentlands for our outing, although the reservoir is still showing a lot more land than usual – but was still looking impressive. It’s really difficult to tell which way the wind blows here since the reservoir is L shaped and the hills play a big part in…
The week in the run up to our outing on the Watch was memorable for some torrential downpours. They were much needed for the local rivers and lochs. The road up through the Lammermuirs was a bit worse for wear and clearly suffering from the impacts of the heavy rainfall. We were hoping that the…
A superb autumnal morning on the Lake: a very comfortable 15°C at 8.00 a.m. and the promise of at least a bit of occasional cloud cover. There was a hint of wind, but to be honest not that much to have any sort of drift. However, the forecast was for an easterly breeze to pick…
Well, we were finally greeted by some welcome rain on our journey through to the Lake. There was a fair amount of surface water on the road and we were met by a fairly heavy downpour on our arrival. Although there was already a decent south westerly blowing into hotel bay, the forecast for the…
It was another stunning drive across the Lammermuir Hills to the Watch reservoir and as per our last outing there was lots of encouraging wildlife to be seen en-route. Alas, the weather conditions were going to be challenging for our day, with more bright sunshine and a blustery south easterly wind that was forecast to…
Keith Logan reports… I was pretty apprehensive about prospects for our day’s fishing. Skies were clear and temperature was picking up already. Reports from earlier in the week were very mixed but it seems that a few people had been picking up fish but on very different tactics. Pick from small dries, buzzers, right down…
Keith Logan writes… I was fishing with John McGonagle. We joined the armada and headed up towards the Malling Shore, first thing. There were already a couple of boats working the area, drifting out from close to shore, in line towards Dog Isle. The conditions felt really good, but once again there was little sign…