Sunday, 10th August

Glencorse Reservoir, Day Session

An excellent example of 4 seasons in one day.  We had everything.  Warm at times, decidedly fresh at others.  Bright sunshine for a good part of the day was interspersed with showers, only for us to be pissed on well and truly as we tried to get off the water.  Wind was breezy, then OK, then breezy, then OK.  However, the weather took a back seat to the water, which was like oxtail soup over most of the reservoir at the start - an obvious result of the seemingly never-ending rain we've been getting.  The discolouration was obviously coming off the hills, as the clearest water was up the top end, where the burn was coming in nice and clean.  Unfortunately, the fishing up the top end, while normally reliable, was poor on the day.

The boats drift the road shore

With very discoloured water over the rest of the fishery, the going was tough, and catches were poor.  Top spot was the corner of the road shore and the best 3 boats managed 5 fish each.   Flies that stood out in the murky conditions were to the fore.  Tommy Steven and Boyd Scott caught theirs on DI-3s and black tadpoles, Vivas and orange lures. 

Callum Macdonald and John Levy ply the oxtail

Hew Thomson was another to use a DI-3, and he took a brace to an orange blob and yellow dancer with a slow retrieve.  Dougie Skedd and Trevor Gibson went slightly higher in the water, with DI-2 and intermediate, catching on minkie booby, Dunkeld and orange blob.  However, not everyone caught on bright stuff.  Ivor Young and Len Newby fished with floater and intermediate, and they had one of the 5 fish boats, catching on gold-ribbed hare's ear and a blue damsel (!), fished slow.  Ed Green took 3 fish to Kelly green line and a lime green cruncher.

Ian Macdonald and I started on lurish stuff and sinking lines, but had nothing to show for it after an hour.  We had seen an odd rise during that time, and we both decided to set up a rod with dries to give it a try.  We had instant success with wee wild brownies and a wild rainbow.  So, we stuck with it - for the rest of the day.  That might have been a mistake, as we only landed one fish over 10 inches, but we had really quite a decent amount of sport, both from the wee brownies, and from fresh-air shots from the better fish.  We caught fish to claret hopper, Adams Klinkhammer and claret half hog.

Ian with our boat's best of the day (best by about 2 lb!)

The Club's 17 Rods landed 23 fish.

Photos: Canon 40D with (image 1) 24-105mm IS and (images 2-5) 55-250mm IS lenses