The weather was just grand for gardening on the Sunday morning of our first outing of the season, bright blue sky and a light wind from the south-west; mind you, the wind had a very cold edge to it. The air temperature was only 3.5 centigrade at the start. However, it was still super to…
DetailsThe day was typical in several ways, and untypical in one or two very important ways too. Typical, in that many of the wettest days I have been out fishing have been on Menteith, and this was a doozy. It stopped for about 15 minutes at one point in the afternoon, and the rest of…
DetailsA very interesting day. The rain encountered while driving down went off, just as we arrived. It stayed off the whole day, giving a heavy overcast light for much of proceedings, together with a light, cold sea breeze. A brief spell of sun, mid-afternoon, brought a welcome burst of warmth. I was fishing with Derek…
DetailsThe weather forecast for Sunday was promising: between six and nine degrees, cloud cover and a nice wind for drifting. Would we get another day like Coldingham, with so many rising fish that you did not know which one to cast towards? (No we did not!) I was living in hope of another dry fly…
DetailsNot the warmest of starts to the day: 2.5°C. Back to the long-Johns and winter woollies. The wind was WSW and due to get up later in the day, but was OK in the morning. The cold rather spoiled things, as there was decent cloud cover and decent numbers of buzzers hatching, but just not…
DetailsA really interesting day this one, in many ways. Given the weather we’ve been getting, we’d have taken it, even though it was single figure temperatures and bright sun for much of the day. The saving grace was that the wind was light and for the first half of the day it was from the…
DetailsThis was our first evening session this year, and perhaps it was a mistake to have an evening session so early in the year. When I arrived, very early, the air was 19.5 Celsius if you were in a sheltered spot. However, when you moved away from the shelter and into the strong east wind,…
DetailsThe kind weatherman promised a nice warm day, with cloud cover and no rain. We did not get any rain… suppose he is happy with one out of three. What we got was a cold, swirling wind. However, it did feel warm when the sun came out, but it got very cold again when a…
DetailsGood weather at last! It was a cracking day to be out. Perhaps not what fishers of traditional wets would have been looking for, but ideal for nymphing or dry fly tactics. The wind was the only fly in the ointment. It was typical ‘light and variable’, which means that what little air there is…
DetailsCracking conditions for it – though the light easterly breeze was naturally a touch on the cool side. However, good cloud cover until the last hour and a lengthways direction of breeze allowed for some good drifts. We hoped that the conditions would give us some good surface activity, but there was an almost total…
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