Butterstone Loch, day session, 25th August.

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This was an excellent day, conditions-wise: mostly overcast, with the odd sunny spell and the odd shower, warm, and with only light breezes or flat calm all day.  It was the sort of day that you could choose your method to catch your fish.  Other clubs were out and spent the day pulling and one boat was seen to bag-up by lunch time on slime line and goldheads.  I heard mention of Kate Mclarens, and black seems to be the best colour at Butterstone in general just now.

The conditions were really ideally suited to dries and our fishers concentrated on them.  There was plenty fly life on the surface to get the fish up.  Over much of the loch the fish were very oncey, and we had to work hard to get them.  Tommy S and Grant W fished down near the harbour though, and they came in reporting having had loads of chances to dries.  They took their fish to a variety of flies including an elk-hair emerger and a Royal Wulff (very exotic!).  Trevor G found fish on the right hand shore, anchoring and figure-of-eighting a team of CDC emergers.  Out in the open water Jimmy M took his fish on PW heather fly and PW bits.  Other successful flies for our members included this claret CDC-come-hopper-come-bits, plus black hoppers and black CDC F-fly.

Euan C displays a nice nymph-caught resident

Spoonings revealed mostly black terrestrials, micro buzzer pupes and bottom stuff such as hog louse and wee green bloodworm.

When the sun turned up the candle-power a bit too much and put the fish down, they were do-able on static nymph.  A (sort of realistic) damsel and a black and pearl nymph took a brace each.

The club's total for 12 rods was an impressive 54 for 90 lb 3 oz, including 5 limit bags of 6 fish.