Club Outing Photos

 

 

The photos within each fishery run in roughly chronological order from top to bottom, 2001 to 2007.  Hopefully, you will see the quality improve as you go down each list!

 

 

Ballo

Ken McL with a butterbelly

This one defies all attempts to make a presentable shot

A hard job seeing your flies

Derek K with a rainbow -- on another dreich day!

Leon into one

Al returns one

Farm landscape

Sunlight

Going back

One in the net

Microlite

West Lomond   Last fished in 2004

 

Butterstone Loch

A bit too calm!

A slight ripple

One of our younger members, Euan with a bright rainbow

Dougie, Tommy and geese in flight

Tommy with a 13 lb 12 oz rainbow

Eric in play

Misty

12 pund 6

JWR in mid cast

Damsel

Our man in Hong Kong

One in the net for Tommy

Proof of the booby's success

Cardney House

Cap'n F -- not beyond using a 'tache himself

John and Eric stick to their task (sort of)

John Miller weeded by fish 1

John Miller weeded by fish 2

John Levy with 5 pounder

John Levy with leaping fish

Resident taken on dry fly

 

Carron Valley Reservoir

Alan M with a Carron specimen

Wild and windy conditions

Dougie with a good wildie

Too soggy for a good photo, but you've got to bring back something!

The sights you see when you haven't got a gun

Carron harbour

Four stockies and a wildie

Dodgy weather

The fog!

Drifting outside Carron Bay

Carron Bay

Typical wild brownie

Bob Whyte with a nice wild fish

Carron bay 2

Mouth of the Carron burn

Bob Whyte and Dougie Skedd drift beyond Carron Bay

Bob and Dougie 'roond the corner'

Carron light

Carron rainbow

Carron Dam

 

Coldingham Loch

First fished in 2005

Decent Rainbow

The aerator and cottage

Not quite ready

The caster

Coldingham fish

Coldingham view

Dougie Goddard returns a fish

Tommy with a lively one

The weedcutter

Bob Allan with one caught in thick fog

perch fry

A foggy start to the day

Stewart Barnes and Jim Tait on a long drift

Bankie

Bob Allan with a nice fish

John Robertson and Bob Norris get tore in

The boathouse

Tommy Steven in action

Hugh Thomson with a fish

Landscape

Bob Whyte bent into a fish

Bob and Greg Milne with a two's-up

 

Frandy

Best Drift (photo by Jimmy Millar)

Large brook dun

Callum with a rainbow

A semi-rare calm

A resident rainbow's version of a hill loch brownie

The leaning tower of Frandy (photo by Alan Morrison)

Ron McC in contemplative mood...

... and with supper

The boats are sturdy enough

The Lodge

Drifting towards the dam

A couple of old codgers

The road shore

A quiet corner at the dam

A fish for Alan (photo from Alan Morrison)

The Tower (photo from Alan Morrison)

One in the net for Dougie Skedd (photo from Alan Morrison)

 

Glencorse Reservoir

First fished in 2005

Up the valley

Drifting the road shore

A typical glencorse stockie

The top end shallowing up in mid summer

A steep backdrop

Time to reflect

Glencorse rainbow

Greylag

The view from the top end, looking back down the water

The two Johns

Len and Ivor

Eric with one in the fading light

Bob Whyte into one

A pair of inquisitive young mallards

Mike Phillips unhooks a rainbow

Summer colours

Fish on

Early morning sun....

...Afternoon clouds

A fish sounds on Dougie

Dougie Skedd does his Mr Crabtree impression

Ian Macdonald into an acrobatic fish

Ian and Boyd Scott

Boyd with a 'sounder'

Euan Cluness with a fish

A wild brownie

Contact 1 (taken just as John Miller hooks into a take to his dry fly

Contact 2 (taken 1/3 sec later)

John Miller and John Levy

Dougie Skedd gets his line caught round the prop

No, it was a fish, really

The harbour

A decent wild brownie

Ivor Young not sleeping!

The view east

Trevor with a fish

Resident rainbow

Fraser in play

Landscape

Trevor into one on dry fly

 

Lake of Menteith

Road shore action 1

Road shore action 2

Alan with a stockie

Alan with a jack pike -- on the day we also had perch and roach (and trout) on the fly

Dougie with a fish from International bay...

...playing it, he looked like he was on the Mediterranean

Eric with a hard-earned one from hotel bay

The Lake Hotel

JSB concentrating hard

Poor light, but you can tell the quality of the fish by the huge jaggy rudder

Jimmy returns a Lake resident

Soggy weather

North shore landscape

An early, dodgy shot that no amount of fiddling could fix -- dark box, net, boat and shadows resulted in the fish being way overexposed.  Included here to show off the tails on two residents caught simultaneously behind Inchmahome Island.

Spring greens -- a view west from the main drag

The chalets at Lochend

View of the north shore 1

View of the north shore 2

View of the north shore 3

Mike P with a road shore stockie

Jimmy with a blue

Alan and Stewart starting out

Steve-O and Eric G chill out

A Blue -- except they never come out blue when you photograph them!

Only standard stamp -- but not a scale out of place

South View

Stu reaches for the net

Lake Hotel -- again

Blues don't come much more silvered

Resident rainbow

The butts (posterised)

Nice rainbow

Getting ready for a breezy start

Lochend rainbow

Fish or back-cast?  You decide

Ben Lomond

lean back

Just chillin

Lake Hotel

Lake resident

Another very silvery blue

Hotel Bay

JWR with rainbow

JSB

Gateside

Big Sky

Busy in home bay

JM with rainbow

JM with blue

Having a think

...and another silvery blue

Rays

The Gateside Wayner

in a two and eight

Dreich

Dreicher

Lake rainbow

Inchmahome launch

Lake Hotel

Lake silhouette

Ian with Lake rainbow

John with a resident rainbow

Snow on the Gargunnock Hills

Winter colours

John leans back and struggles to get his pike in shot -- problem when you use a 70-300 mm lens in a boat!

Snow on Ben Lomond

Osprey

Ken Maclean with a blue

Bob Allan & Dougie Skedd

Alan Duncan readies the net for Dougie Goddard

Spring colours in Gateside bay

Dace caught on fly

Gateside sep 06

John Robertson nets a big blue for Richard Goddard

Tommy and Bob pass Inchmahome

Eric Singer and John Miller with some early mist on the water

Ken Cockburn plays a lump of a rainbow

Stewart Barnes

Lake clouds

Weather over Jimmy Nairn's

Acrobatic rainbow

Lochend

Tommy and Ivor

A busy Gateside

Dougie Skedd with rainbow

The Butts drift

Cap'n Fishy with a blue

Blue Sky

The Butts

Adam Marr with a rainbow

North view

A good-looking rainbow

The view towards Gateside

A chromer of a blue

John Wastle and Alan Duncan

Hi-Viz (gonnae no dae that?)

Paul Young in play

Paul Young with a blue

Paul Young with blue No. 2

A real rainbow!

Bob Temple and Dougie Skedd

Dougie Skedd in play

The harbour

Stewart Barnes

Ian Macdonald

Adrian Coats and Dougie Skedd with rustic backdrop

 

Lindores Loch

Railway shore landscape

Dougie with a big stockie brown (photo by Alan M)

Big Hill, small image!

Derek K with a decent rainbow, taken at the bird hide

Ian Mac with a silvery one

Jimmy and Dougie and a bit of experimentation in PSP

Jimmy gets hold of a live one

View to the south

A decent fish

Steve-O with a resident

Trevor -- he's hidden in there somewhere

Trevor and Al in action

A nice loop

Into a lively one

Steve with a stockie

Boat 4 4 4 4

View from the road shore

Railway shore

John W with a stockie

Pike on the fly

Scabby perch

Earthy tones of March

View down the loch

An early season fish for Dougie

Action for Al

Bob and Ken on the drift

Lindores osprey

Lindores House

The Lodge

Late evening action

House and horses

Dog Days

Boyd Scott with rainbow

Bob Temple lands one for John Robertson

Winter colours

Dougie Skedd with a fish in choppy conditions

Twos-up

Ian Mac with a rainbows

Bob Norris gets pulled out his seat

Resident rainbow

April 07

Tommy Steven lands one

Cars

Ian and Stewart in a good light

Fraser and Bob Temple

Osprey

Arse in the air

Milanda Bay

Osprey collection

Bill Scobie

Chris Bell

John Wastle with a nice fish

Where's the net?

 

Linlithgow Loch

Gavin O from the School club with a rainbow

View of Linlithgow Palace from Town Bay

A rare sight these days -- a Linlithgow brownie

One for the twitchers -- a red-crested pochard

A Millpond

Evening sun on the town

Trevor with one on the 'tache

The town as dusk falls

A back end fish for Fraser

Young Gavin into one off the north shore

Dougie concentrates on the next take

One in the net for Fraser

A chromer for Alan

Swans

Stu with one

Town Bay

Ian & Gav

He didnae like the look o' the net!

Incoming!

Boyd on his way to catch of the day

One in the net for Gavin...

...And another for Harry

John and Tommy double up

Linlithgow palace

Stretch

Autumn comes to north west bay

Town Bay

Dougie, pleased with his reward

Geese

Guest Gary Heseltine brings one to the net

Boyd Scott & Bob Whyte

Bob Allan with a nice rainbow

Linlithgow stockie

Waiting for some action

The harbour

Cormorants and The Palace

Stewart Barnes, with a fish of 6 lb 12 oz

Town Bay

Alan Morrison with a fish

Bob Allan and Trevor with a 2s-up

Linlithgow buzzer

Brooding sky over the Palace

The two Johns

Douglas Maxwell unhooks a fish

Leaping trout (thanks to Douglas)

Trevor and Gavin in action

John Miller -- what a stramash!

Trevor gets taken round the back

Boyd Scott in play

Linlithgow harbour

 

Loch Leven

Stu and Dougie head out

Adrian with a grown-on rainbow

Alan M with the brownie most of us dream of catching (photo by Stu)

A rainbow -- taken nymphing at the Sluices

Evening sky 1

Derek K with a rainbow at east buoy

Portents of doom (which didn't actually come about)

Excitement reaches fever-pitch

John F with a 3 lb plus brown

Evening sky 2

John W with a nice wee dry fly-caught resident rainbow

Silhouette looking west

View towards the north shore from the sluices

A view of the Kelson strip

Evening sky 3

Big John with a good rainbow

The Lomond Hills

Skedd on the hang

Evening sky 4

Alan M in action during a magic spell with dry fly

Alan's son, Iain with the resulting brownie

Evening sky 5

A view of the Lomond Hills from the gunwale -- and a bit choppy

Jimmy with a rainbow at the sluices

A magic land

Big John with another rainbow

Evening sky 6

Stu B with a brownie from the north

North buoy

The pier

Kelson from the harbour

Harbour lights

Evening light

Mad sky

Another mad sky

Heading out in a good chop

Sunset in June

A leash of boats drift the north deeps

The Club's last Leven rainbow

Our whole outing in the frame

Scotlandwell

T in the Park

Sunset July 05  Last fished in 2005

 

Portmore Loch

Adrian C with a 10 pounder

Derek K with a nice resident fish, taken as light was failing fast

Sunset over the dam

Eric S and David E at the lonesome pine

Ian Mac and younger son Gavin

View up the valley to the south

JW Robertson with a good brace

Leon with a stockie

A view up the valley under low cloud

Mike P with a big stockie

JSB AND JWR with big fish

Another view up the valley -- nicer conditions this time

JSB with a late one

Jimmy and Fraser in action

Stewart B with a stockie

Fowerpundnine

Fish on

Early mist

Flatus calmus

Laird's Bay

Up the valley

A good fish for David

Tuber

Splosh

Peacock

Mike P with a rainbow

One in the boat for Steve and Al

Weather closing in

Alan H gives it some wellie

Two Johns

Try to look mildly interested, Dougie!

A lot of lines -- and one fish

Portmore can do good blues too

Richard playing a blinder

A contemplation of 'taches

John Miller readies the net for John Dewar

Tommy has success in rubbish conditions

Looking towards the top end

Fraser Gault & Alan Duncan

Tommy gets the net under another one

Mike Phillips nets a big fish for guest Colin Mclean

Portmore sky

Portmore harbour

John Robertson gives it some welly

The Laird's bay

Alan Holbrook with an early fish

John with a well-proportioned rainbow Last fished in 2006

 

Vennachar

First fished in 2007

The Lodge

Good light

A rare fish

Ben Venue

The harbour

 

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