Portmore Loch, evening session, 7 June

"...and if you cannae see the hills, it means it's raining."

We had a wet, windy evening for our outing to Portmore -- as we do for all our evening outings to Portmore!  However, better that than bright sunshine, and the temperature was OK.  Things were made easy for us by the water having been recently stocked, and the fish had run down the easterly wind and were lining the west shore, only a few feet out from it.  The problem for a couple of our boats was that we had forgotten to bring anchors.  It was a struggle, hooking a 4 lb plus rainbow just as the boat is being blown ashore, having to bring in the drogue, start the electric outboard, get turned, run the boat out to open water, walking the fish as we went, before finally getting a chance to play it out and land it!  It all added to the fun, though.

Unfortunately, a couple of boats fished too far upwind and missed out, but those who got in to the shoreline activity caught plenty.  All sorts of flies and tactics worked.  Orange/coral/sunburst was a repeating colour range, as was black, and white (no surprises, really).  Stewart B (black) and JW Robertson (coral) both went with boobies.  JW fished a washing line set up on the Hi-D.  Most others seemed to be on slime lines, and things like orange blobs and black tads seemed to work fine.

Guest Mike P with the only fish we caught when it was dry enough to get the camera out

Many of the fish were of the very highest quality, but it was a tricky matter to get a photograph of one of them, as it was pissing down for most of the evening (plus the other problems of always being in a 2 and 8 with the boat when we hooked one!).

The fish got a lot trickier in the second part of the evening, and Trevor and Al (who had been late in getting into the action and were playing catch up) were one of the few boats to catch fish later on.  They reported getting most of their fish on small white lures.  Guest Mike P changed to more traditional stuff and picked up 2 on a Wickham's.  Meanwhile, Tommy S and Adrian C found fish away from the main group, taking theirs on sunburst tads in the top bay.

The heaviest bag of 5 was weighed in by Alan M, at 20 lb 4 oz, while Alan D had the biggest fish, at 5 lb 6 oz.  The Club's total for 10 boats was 71 fish for 252 lb 12 oz, with 42 others returned.