Sunday, 13th June

Frandy, Day Session

New management at Frandy, a nice new lodge and new petrol outboards available for hire.  Those who took one were thankful for them, as the westerly breeze was on the stiff side.  Not the best of days, weather-wise, at least for rainbows.  Not a bad day by any means for brownies though, with a mix of overcast and bright spells.  Boats that went up the top looking for shelter came back disappointed, as it was rougher up there than down the bottom.

Many of us started on dries, which have become our preferred method for Frandy.  It seemed slow going, however, with few fish keen to poke their noses out, and not much in the way of natural fly life to draw them.  Some switched to pulling on slime line and DI-3, and one or two fish were taken, to the likes of orange blobs and damsels.  However pulling was, if anything, even slower than dries, and we ended up going back to the latter.

Tommy S and Ken Macl spent the entire day drifting the last 100 yards of the south shore to the dam, taking 3 apiece to heather fly and claret hopper.  JSB took a brace to hopper and sedgehog, drifting down the middle.  My boat partner, George W had a magic spell to large hairy dries over on the north shore, which pointed both Alan M and I in the right direction, albeit with differing tactics.  While our successful patterns were fairly similar: Big Vern, sedgehog and stimulator among them, Al pulled his across the top, while I found that movement didn't help and all my fish came to static presentation.  Al's bag of 7 was the day's best.

Lenny N is always consistent on Frandy, and he again took a decent bag of 3 to floating line and Dunkeld, doobry and black pennell.

The Club's 15 rods landed 27 fish