Portmore Loch, evening session, 6th July.
A group of us had just arrived back from a trip to Chew and Blagdon, where we had been battling sunburn and heatstroke with temperatures in the eighties every day. What a shock to the system to be out in Baltic weather on Portmore the next day -- cold and breezy off the north east! To make matters worse, here is a view across the water...
It was a bit foggy!
What else could make it worse? Well, the water was much warmer than the air and full of algae.
It was perhaps not surprising that the fishing was poor. In fact, it was very poor. Every method was tried in every area in the course of the evening, but our 20 rods caught a total of just 3 fish.
Guest Mike P had a nice resident on a shuttlecock after just 5 minutes, while Eric S had one on dries late on. In between, Stewart B took a 5 pounder (above) off the forestry shore on a black booby on a WetCel II.
