A superb day just to be out, after so much bleak, cold, grey, off-the-east type weather in recent months. I saw the forecast – no breeze and no cloud – and so slathered myself in Factor 50 before leaving the house. I had been out on our loch for just a couple of hours last…
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It was a quiet opening day outing for the club this season, with only 3 boats booked following a few last minute call-offs. Our last few sessions on Linlithgow have proven to be extremely challenging, not helped by the quality of the water, which resulted in poor catch returns. Last season this outing was cancelled…
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A cracking day to end the season for the club outings. And we missed the foul weather by a day as well, which was a welcome bonus. We had a calm start with cloud cover, which dissolved away as the breeze got up from the west to give a bright day with a light-moderate…
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Dougie Skedd reports… Linlithgow Loch. A venue where I learned a huge portion of what I know about stillwater trouting. It was the only place available to me as a youngster that behaved the way writers for magazines described it. I devoured it at the time. Buzzers, and nymphs in general, were what the trout…
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After the lovely weather at the Watch on Tuesday, it was back to north easterly, cold and dreich… all day. Still, it wasn’t too bad from a fishing perspective. I fished with guest Ron Sharp again. We both set up 2 rods – one on dries and one to pull or have a twiddle. I…
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This visit to the Watch was meant to take place on Saturday 14th. However, high winds caused a reschedule to 3 days later. And what a change those 3 days brought! The light westerly breeze at the start was perfect, Unusually, rather than get up, it fell away to near flat calm through the afternoon. …
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The last 3 club outings I was scheduled to attend have all been cancelled due to the weather. That’s a first! Today’s outing to The Watch Reservoir makes 6 outings this season that have been lost, 5 of them to the weather (the first at Linlithgow was down to the water quality). I thought I…
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Outing cancelled due to high winds forecast for the Lammermuirs.
Dougie Skedd reports… After a couple of cancellations for strong winds it was good to be getting out to fish at Frandy. Given the way the weather has been it should have been no surprise to get up on Saturday morning to find a windless day with dense fog. The murk was particularly bad, crossing…
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Dougie Skedd reports… At last! We finally got out fishing as a club. What with the summer break and two weather-related cancellations, it’s been a while. Word was that fish were being caught at Malling and Gateside. That meant two places to avoid, at least early on. I can’t stand crowded water these days. The…
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