Sunday, 27th July

Loch Leven, Evening Session

Looked like being another bright and breezy evening, but no sooner were we on the water, but a lovely big bank of cloud came over and gave us cracking conditions for the best part of the night.  From fairly early-on, we reckoned you wanted to be fishing the south-westerly to come on to St. Serf's midway between the west point and Dunlop bay.  That's where the armada assembled, and there was a fair bit of sconing went on in that area through the middle of the evening, with the fish well up in the column and chasing bright stuff.

Later, a change to dry fly proved a good move, as the light started to fade and the fish went a bit tricky, but that got knocked on the head as the previously dropping wind picked back up and went cold.  And so it all kind of fizzled out around back of 10.

Most of our boats fished the south deeps to Dunlop bay area, although Jimmy M and Alan M stayed back at Kelson and Scart, taking a couple each to dries, such as stimulator, claret Klinkhammer and ginger Shipman.

Jimmy and Alan at the Kelson Strip

The rest of our crew concentrated on the St. Serf's area.  Bob Norris had 3 for 5 lb on a black and green minky.  Sadly the fly was lost, so no photo available!  Bob's boat partner, JW Robertson had a 3 lb rainbow on a green tag stick.  Tommy S and Steve G had sport to blobs, silver Invicta muddler and orange booby.  Fraser G likewise scored with sunburst blob and gold sparkler.  In our boat it was the Kate lure and Gold-headed Dunkeld early on, and a dry half-hog later, that did the trick.

The club's total for 12 rods was 15 fish for 30 lb 6 oz, with 4 returned.