Friday, 4th June

Portmore Loch, Evening Session

A lone bankie tries his luck at the point of the Laird's Bay

Late May/early June evenings are a bit of a hit/miss affair at Portmore.  We've had good ones when conditions have been right, but get an open sky that turns baltic as soon as the sun drops and it tends to be hard going.  This was one of the latter.  The loch had been stocked the previous day, but the stockies seemed not to be widely distributed and did not figure in the catches for most of our rods, who fished away from the dam area.

David E with an early fish to GH HE

For most folk, if you were to get a fish it had to be early, before the temp dropped.  Stevo and Alan D had a fish apiece in the first half hour, fishing close in to the west shore with nymphy rigs.  David E also had an early fish in the same area, to a gold head hare's ear, as did Trevor, to a 'tached-up Diawl Bach.  JW Robertson had one to a damsel, and Bob N had a brace (no details).

Fraser clearly thinking, "What can we do???!"

The evening's only success story was provided by Tommy S, who stayed anchored-up off the lonesome pine most of the evening, taking 4 to buzzers and Okey-dokey (sorry, I don't have one to photograph and my attempts to paint the head of a maggot orange resulted in a messy failure!).

Late on, there were a few oncey risers in the calm of the Laird's Bay, but they were so oncey that covers with dries were a waste of time and the best bet was to set the trap and sit patiently and wait for them to find the fly.  "Two did that for our boat, which resulted in one nice resident landed (black Shipman's) and one screamer that led to an inertia break-off.