Sunday, 23rd March

Lindores Loch, Day Session

 

What an unbelievable day to kick off our season -- yet again!  Middle of March and we were rolling up our sleeves and slapping on the sun-tan lotion.  Lindores had been open all winter (except when it was frozen), so we were expecting good sport with residents on nymphing tactics.  Whether the flat calm and bright sun made that a bit difficult, we're not sure, but there were not many on the feed, despite a decent hatch of buzzers throughout the day.

Nevertheless, many stockies fell to nymphing tactics, while many more fell to pulling with slime lines.

Trevor started off catching with his Cat-Balou, then went onto buzzers in the afternoon, taking 5 plus 11 returned.  Lenny went the other way round, catching 5 plus 7 returned on a bloodworm imitation (albeit a bloody big bloodworm!) in the morning, before getting them on lures in the afternoon.

 Jimmy M returned his bag of 15, taken mostly to a Dunkeld and a damsel on the slime line.  Alan H, fishing with Trevor, came into his own in the afternoon, boating a total of 11.  Alan mostly fished a long line downwind and slowly figure-of-eighted his buzzers back.  Alan M and I wasted our time up the far end for the first couple of hours, before coming back to where all the action was -- all over the near end.  We couldn't get going with pulling stuff at all, but ended up getting our sport swinging buzzers when a slight breeze got up.  The buzzer-tad caught a few.

 
Above: JWR with his first of the day, one of few to come from up at the big house.

 

Right: Trevor's 'tache takes another troot

 

Below: Later in the afternoon the bright sun gave way to the underlying haze that has been around for the past couple of weeks.

Dougie S was another who did much better with nymphs than pulling.  John R and Allan E had a good boat, with 10 weighed and 17 returned.  Allan submitted his much-chewed buzzer for the camera, and it was noticeable when it was put alongside the other 2 Alans' successful flies that there was very little difference between them.

The Club's 14 rods weighed in 58 fish for 111 lb and returned a further 61.