Friday, 1st July

Portmore Loch, Evening Session

Another case of nearly with the weather.  The previous 2 evenings had 100% ceiling but, as usual when we turn up, the sky opens and we got the bright early/cold later scenario.  If we thought the activity at Linlithgow the other week was localised, this was on another level.  In the early part of the evening, the only rod catching was the one on the left of the third boat along in the big bay.  Then he stopped and his mate on the right was the only one catching for the next half hour or so.  What was going on there?  There was an odd fish to our rods in the big bay -- John Miller had one swinging buzzers -- but our boys never got tuned in.  Tommy Steven found some mid-evening action to dries drifting out of the Laird's Bay, and that seemed the best option, though a switch to dries ourselves found far more fish giving us the dreaded fresh-airies than actually hooking up.  Tommy took 3 to a half-hog.

Tommy lands a half-hog taker

Most folk went to dries, and scrambled around for a fish or so.  John Miller added a couple to his bag.  There were sedges and olives about, and a brief hatch of Caenis got a few fish up and nebbing, but they were very well spread and the leccy outboard was needed to track after them.  Mike Phillips had 2 well into the shallows of the Laird's Bay on a hare's ear F-fly.

Mike Phillips with one to the F-fly

Eric Singer fished of the bank, and found some sedge feeders in the area of the old car-park, taking 2 to a sedgehog.  Late on, Dougie Skedd came down the same area and found the same sedge feeders.  Dougie bagged 6, figure-of-eighting a stimulator, while everyone else was doing nothing!

The Club's 12 (or was it 13) rods landed 20 fish.

Photos: Canon 10D with 28-135 IS lens and polarising filter