Saturday, 12th August

Glencorse, Day Session

Starting to cool a bit.  The easterly breeze saw to that.  It was easterly for a while, at least.  Then north, then west, then east again, then north again.  That didn't help.  The water looked in good fettle, but with very little fly life.  The most predominant food item (if you cold call it that) was dandelion seeds.  They blew across the water all day, and quite a few got hit by the fish in the afternoon.

Rises were few and very oncey all day, though.  Most folk struggled with dries, though Dougie Skedd took 4 to claret Klinkhammer and claret hopper, while Mike Phillips took 5, all to a size 14 black Klinkhammer.

Mike Phillips unhooks one of 5 to the Klinkhammer

The fish seemed much more spread than of late, and bags came from several spots, with the middle section of the road shore proving best on the day.  However, many of our rods struggled to find a method that was worth more than a fish or two.  Tommy Steven had 2 to dries and 3 to DI 3 and a hot-head damsel.  Bob Allan had 4 to a DI-3 and orange lures and Diawl Bachs.

Best bags of the day by a good margin were the 9 taken by Ian Macdonald, and the 10 taken by Bob Whyte.  While they both fished in much the same area (that centre section along the road shore), their successful methods were rather different.

Top rod, Bob Whyte into one

Ian fished the Bristol reservoirs style: floating line, long leader, team of nymphs, cast in front of the boat and just take up the slack as it moves forward.  Ian's catch was mostly to a jungle-cock Diawl Bach, with 3 to this wee damsel.  Bob took 8 of his fish on this cat's whisker variant plus 2 on an orange fritz.  All were taken on a DI-3 and slow retrieve, with the fish coming in 2 distinct spells, one in the morning, with a gap in the middle of the day, before they came on again late afternoon.

Not to be outdone by the goose on the last trip...

The Club's 18 rods caught 49 fish.

Photos: Canon 10D with 28-135mm IS lens