Sunday, 15th June

Linlithgow Loch, Day Session

Cap'n F and JSB both away.  Report by Dougie Goddard.

It was a select group of only six members that gathered for the June outing to Linlithgow loch.

 After a dry and sunny start to the summer, the loch was beginning to show signs of getting a bit ‘rich’, particularly close to the shore in Town Bay.  The wind varied between light and flat calm and changed direction frequently over the course of the day, whilst overhead conditions varied between bright sunshine with periods of good cloud cover and the occasional brief shower.

 As is the norm at Linlithgow, most anglers opted to fish buzzers for most of the day.  There was the occasional rise, which tempted members to try the dry fly for short periods, but the fish tended to show once only rather than exhibit the classic feeding habit.

Top boat was John Miller (4) and Bob Norris (2) with John taking one on a claret hopper, two on a gold-head pheasant tail nymph and another on a Diawl bach whilst Bob had both his fish on dries. They opted to stay over the deep water in Town Bay.

Tom Steven and I had two fish each with mine taking buzzers in the morning, also in Town Bay. Tom was unlucky to lose two fish in the morning, but held on to two caught in the shallower water down at the East end of the loch, with one taking a bloodworm representation and the other falling to an olive buzzer pupa.

John Robertson and Trevor Gibson had a difficult day with only one fish each, John catching his early in proceedings and Trevor late in the day. They stayed at the Town Bay end of the loch and had their only successes fishing buzzers.

After a long and difficult day, everyone was happy to come off the water at 6pm rather than opt to go out again after weigh-in to see if there was an evening rise.