Lindores, day session, 25th March.
A bit of a nip in the air! It was snowing for a while! And your secretary had a fish first cast of 2001! An odd assortment of flies and methods worked, including my boat partner and I getting 2 each on buzzers on the slime line. Most of the top bags came from the bottom end, where we fished, but we never really got a handle on it. Meanwhile, fishing the top end, one of our rods had 8 for the day, but others struggled up there, and the fishery management seemed sure the bottom end was best. The rest of our top bags went 7s, 6s, 5s, 4s, 3s, 2s, 1s and a blank. Oh, and our top rod... He had 13: 5 more than anyone else!!! -- Hi-D all day in the shallow water down the bottom end. What really threw us though, was boat 11 (not our club), who sat in the one spot all day, chucking out slime lines, slow F-of-8-ing and taking fish after fish. These guys must have had 30-odd for their boat. We saw a white lure going out (which was one of our successful flies) but heard them telling their mates they were getting them on Diawl Bachs. We weren't sure how much kidology was going on, but it's not impossible they were telling the truth. As usual, in these situations, we tried to copy them and got nowhere with it!!! Our club return was 14 rods weighing in 54 fish for 99 lb 4 oz, with 22 more returned.