Saturday, 25th October

Linlithgow Loch, Day Session

A decent day for the time of year, albeit a bit cool, and a tad bright and breezy at times.  The water was strangely coloured in places, though the underlying clarity was good.  Spooned residents in our boats were stuffed with Corixae.

Concentrating on the next take.

Ian Mac and younger son Gavin took 8 for 16 lb between them, mostly down at cormorant island, and mostly to orange blobs on the slime line.  Ian's elder son, Callum, fishing with guest, Adam C took 3 to yellow boobies and slime lines.  Tommy S and Ivor returned 4, mostly taken along the north shore.  Trevor an Alan returned 3, taken to buzzer and minky.

Gavin's dad gets the net ready

Dougie S fished boobies all day, returning a total of 9 fish, taken between a cat/minky style and a yellow & gold.  Dougie fished his way along the north shore, from the bridge to the east end, finding that a WetCel I was the best line to fish the flies just above the weed.  Fraser and I scratched around, taking a fish here on this and a fish there on that.  At the end, when we totalled it up, most our catch had been on Diawl Bach variants: a couple swung on the floater, the rest F-of-8ed or tweaked on the slime line.  We convinced ourselves that the DBs were being taken as Corixae, even to the point of choosing to fish a pearl-thorax DB and taking a couple on it.  (Just indulge us!)  Fraser's top variant was his own red holo thorax one.

Fraser caught better-looking fish than this one (though it is not at all bad),

but this is the only one we could be bothered swapping places for, so the pair of them

didn't end up as a black outline.

The Club's 13 rods weighed in 21 fish for 43 lb 7 oz and returned a further 20.