We almost got a good day on Saturday the 30th May – It was dry, bright, but still with the strong, cold, blustery wind blowing from the North West. The water temperature was 9.5°C and the air was the same, never the best for fishing near the top of the water. Allan Brown and I…
I think a few of us must have been bad in our youth. Why? Because the weather was if anything worse, for fishing, than any other time this year. When we arrived at Carron, the water was spilling over the dam in waves and the water on the reservoir side of the dam was chaotic.…
Will the weather ever get better this year? When we arrived at Glencorse, it was quite nice, the wind was gentle from the west and fish were rising in boat bay. Bob Whyte and I were blethering and decided that we were going to try dries up at the west end of the loch and…
Our uncanny knack of failing at every attempt to get a day of ideal conditions for an outing to Coldingham continued, as May heralded in single-figure temperatures, and a biting wind that was actually better when it was off the north than when it came round to the east. It was, otherwise, a day of…