April 26th 2009 – Carron Valley Reservoir

A bit of a near-miss, conditions-wise. Temperature was lovely and warm the day before, but dropped like a stone overnight. Wind was southerly (thought that should be a warm direction!!!) a lot of the time, which is awkward for Carron, blowing across the water and buggering up the drifts, and was swirling, changing direction, almost…

April 12th 2009 – Glencorse Reservoir

JSB reports… This was our first visit to Glencorse in 2009 and we had a slightly lower than average turn-out of 14 anglers. The conditions were very respectable for the time of year, with the westerly wind varying from light to moderate. It did swirl a bit in various areas, as it is wont to…

April 4th 2009 – Lake of Menteith

A good looking day at the start – flat calm with buzzers hatching and fish rising. Bob Allan and I started out on dries (Adams hopper and black Klinkhammer), and we were rewarded with some cooperative fish in the first half hour or so. Unfortunately, as soon as a breeze got up, the fish went…