Lindores Loch, eve session, 11 May
A stiff westerly breeze and very bright overhead conditions took the edge off the sport for a good bit of the evening. As soon as the sun went down, however, the switch was thrown and the fish started rising. Unfortunately for many, the risers were in tight, localised groups, and anglers who were not among them missed out. Just what could be achieved with those fish in the last wee spell was highlighted by Jimmy M, who had but a single fish for the whole evening to that point, but who took 7 on a dry, size 12 claret Shipman in the fading light.
Earlier on it had been hard going generally, although Allan H put a bag together on buzzers, and Steve G and I also got fish to swinging buzzer patterns, including Jimmy's PTN pattern, epoxy buzzer and buzzer tad.
Steve G with a buzzer-caught resident
We got the dries on at the end as well, and had some frantic last gasp sport to such as a size 14 sparkle gnat, black Shipman and Adams hopper. All this had been down at the harbour end. The 2 Allans, M and E, had the top end by Lindores House pretty much to themselves. They had sport at the start to buzzers (black epoxy and diawl bach) and later to dries -- F-fly in the slicks/claret snatcher when the wind got up.The club's 20 rods weighed in 41 fish for 85 lb, with 19 fish returned (some folk preferred to fish catch and release from the start).