Sunday, 20th April

Lindores Loch, Day Session

We got away with the nasty weather that was forecast, although it was a bit brighter than ideal and the easterly breeze was a bit stoory and veering at times.  The water clarity was superb, and everything added up to a day of nymph fishing.  Early fish were found by the spread of boats over the harbour end, although they went off after an hour or so, and the boats started to spread.  From then on, the majority of the fish came from a line from the top of the road shore, all the way down the bays on the right, to the bird hide round from the big house.

As usual, when it is a case of nymphing, catches fluctuated from blanks to bumper bags, depending on whether you got tuned into how the fish wanted the fly presented to them.  The overall impression was that the fish were lying quite deep, possibly as a result of the daphnia being driven deep by the sun -- that was pretty much all that showed in spoonings, in addition to small buzzers.  The trout were, on average, much more residential than on our March outing, and many nice fish were taken.

There were 3 stand-out catches, all well into double-figures.  Jimmy M got most of his fish on his melanistic flashback Cove PTN.  The majority were taken with it on the middle of a long flouro leader with a bit of weight in the tail fly.  Trevor G got most of his to epoxy buzzer patterns, including this red-arsed one, fished by putting a long cast straight down the wind, dropping in deep, and then slow-figure-of-eighting back his team on flouro.  Derek K took top bag fishing Diawl Bachs on the swing.

Trevor G, aka Mossy Oak, with a bright fish taken on the downwind hang

Elsewhere, Alan M returned a dozen fish, taken on the same buzzers that worked a month ago, and John W took 10 more to buzzers on the swing.  There were catches of 7s, 8s and 9s for Steve G, Mike P, Dougie S and Stu B, taken on buzzers, Diawl Bachs, including holos and JCs, and hare's ears.