Lindores, evening session, 12th May.

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Jimmy into a fish on the dries

This was a superb evening, even if it was very sunny.  The sun didn’t matter: it was just great to be fishing, in the evening, in shirt-sleeves, after such a long a gap since the last time!  We were always concerned about the north sea haar coming in, but it stayed in the north sea, thankfully.  The wind was light and variable all evening, allowing everyone to fish by whatever method they preferred.  We had 2 boats that stood out from the rest in terms of catches: one with 16 and one with 13.

oor Club Secy with a nice resident

The former got their fish by anchoring and swinging epoxy buzzers in the middle bay on the right.  The latter got theirs by drifting out in open water, changing methods several times as the fish in that area changed their depth and mood as the evening progressed.  That included slow figure-of-eighting nymphs on the slime line, static nymphing on the floater, and dry fly.  Successful patterns for them included black tads, buzzer tads, Diawl Bachs, claret Shipmans and Leadbetter suspenders.

 Top bag for points was 5 for 10 lb 13 oz plus 2 returned, and in all The Club’s 8 boats weighed in 42 fish for 76 lb 7 oz, with a further 9 returned.