Sunday, 25th July

Loch Leven, Evening Session

A better night for pointing the camera at the sky than pointing the rod at the water.  Bright early, with the temperature dropping like a stone later.  Not having been in touch with Leven, it was a guess as to where to fish.  There's no armada to follow these days -- a sorry state of affairs!  Stu B and I tried our luck with sinkers, running the SW breeze from the west end of the strip across to Metal Mickey (Stu hit Mickey from 500 yards!)  Stu brought up 2 fish at once.  Then he hooked 3 at once -  all brownies in the half pound class.  Then I hooked 2 at once - more wee brownies.  That was it for that area. 

Stu with our boat's best of the night

A move to the Scart area saw us try a change of tactics.  We went with Margarets on the slime line and, eventually as one or two fish started to show, the floater.  Stu took a brownie of 1 lb 9 oz, and I hooked 2 at once... again.  "No use", says Stu.  "Three of a kind beats 2 pair!"

The temperature continued to drop and it went dead on us.  That was it.

Sunset over the west shore

Back at the weigh-in (such as it was) Tommy S had returned a brownie at 2 and a quarter, taken on a buzzer pupe at the Green Isle on Wetcel II, while John M had a brown at 1 lb 10 oz, taken on kingfisher butcher and intermediate at Hole 'i the Inch.

The Club's 8 rods landed 6 brownies over 10 inches.