Let’s start the normal way: the weather! It was 12/13 degrees, light winds from the north west/west and lots of cloud cover, with rain in the afternoon. Not too bad, but because Frandy sits high in the Ochil hills it felt a lot cooler. As we approached the reservoir at 7.45, there were quite a…
A dreich Saturday morning greeted our arrival at Carron Valley. We were surprised by how quiet the car park was, given that the Scierra pairs competition was scheduled for the same day. Unfortunately for the fishery, the event was cancelled with only 48 hours’ notice. This meant that our three boats had Carron to ourselves,…
A sudden improvement in the weather gave us a nice calm, sunny day. However, it came with a price to pay… The breeze was never the same strength or direction for more than 2 minutes. It kept buggering-up the plans, again and again. Peter Fionda and I started out in the bay where the burn…
By now you would have thought that we’d be enjoying warm westerlies! Correct about the westerlies but wrong about warm! It was 5 degrees when we arrived in the car park and at times it didn’t feel like it got much warmer for the rest of the day. It did however stay dry. Colin Riach…