Carron Valley Reservoir, day session, 5 May

Our Club Secretary knows when to miss an outing and go elsewhere.  He must be making a fortune giving Carron dates to weather forecasters, travel agents, sun-worshippers, etc.  Yes, Carron again meant clear blue skies and flat calm.  Colin’s sub. for the day wasn’t made to feel better by a boatman who claimed we hadn’t paid for the outing and that we hadn’t ordered any outboards.  Eventually things were sorted out, that is except for the sun and flat calm. 

Yellow-tailed Priest

To be fair, the weather did improve somewhat, later in the day.  A breeze blew up and occasional cloud cover helped, but the consensus of opinion was that it was a hard day again.  The total catch for 6 boats was 12 fish weighed in for 11 lb 9 oz with 24 others returned to fight another day.  Stewart C and his dad did reasonably well with Kate McLaren and black/gold wets on slime lines.  Their catch included a very nice 1 lb 6 oz fish.   Adrian C was successful with a yellow-tailed priest (whoever he was) and the acting secy was shown up by his boat partner Alan M, who took 6, mainly on a Di5 with tadpole and wets, but including one on the dries.

Jimmy's CDC

Not unusually Jimmy “what difficult conditions?” M showed his class with 9 on buzzers and CDCs.

We will be lucky with the weather some day on Carron – surely!!  

 S.B.