The forecast on Saturday night looked good – calm, possibly even flat calm, with reasonable cloud cover. However, we arrived on Sunday morning to cold and breezy, and not a cloud in the sky! To make matters worse, Gareth informed us fishing had been really tough recently. Ah well! Nothing ventured and all that, Stewart…
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A reasonable day, conditions-wise – a tad wet at times, but nice breeze out the south-west and good overhead. It was flat calm, tackling up, which prompted me to start on dries, but before we even got on the water, a breeze had got up. Nevertheless, I had a look from a fish first cast,…
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Another July club outing and another episode of Scotland the Dreich. Hard to imagine that only two days earlier I was sitting on top of the cairn at the summit of Lamer Law in 26 degrees, with not a cloud in the skies, and having side-stepped a couple of adders on the way up, basking…
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They say Montana has big skies, well someone should check out the wilds of the Trossachs on a typical July morning. The big difference in Scotland is that our skies are peppered with lots of dark clouds that hold plenty of water. It was a dreich morning, make no mistake, but warm and overcast, with…
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Saturday evening up at Frandy was definitely a soup and bacon roll night, rather than strawberries and cream. A bit cool even for Scotland in early July and there was quite a lot more wind around than we had hoped for. We could see the day-boats drifting open water and close to the dam wall…
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Weather forecast could have been better. Wind to be from the west, 15mph, reaching 20mph later in the afternoon, although at least some cloud. On the day, it didn’t quite work out as forecast, and the wind didn’t reach these speeds, although it was still quite gusty, lots of cloud cover with some sunny intervals. …
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Sunday session: 12:00 to 19:00 Bob Whyte reporting: First of all an apology from me, collected all the members’ cards, but after filling-in the outing sheet somehow managed to lose them. So I’ll try and be as accurate as possible! First of all, it was 27 degrees, bright sunshine and a light breeze when I…
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A blessed relief to leave behind all the general election nonsense and never-ending mutterings on Brexit, Indieref2 and a raft of ridiculous promises from Westminster and Holyrood. It is likely that trout are a lot more reliable and actually quite a bit brighter than our own politicians. A special commendation to the fishery and management…
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Rather unsettled conditions for this half session (5:30-9:30 pm). Heavy showers around – though we stayed dry. Strange haar rolling in off the sea – though that cleared away. The breeze started NE, swung east, then south, and ended up westerly. Then we had quite bright and fresh conditions for most of the evening. John…
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Best day’s fishing conditions I’ve been out in for a very long time! Warm, sultry, even. Light easterly/north easterly brreze. Bright spells, though largely good cloud cover. The thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon had yet to materialise by the time we departed. Due to a late call-off, I had a boat to myself. With conditions…
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