A 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…
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The 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…
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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…
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Last outing of the season, and it was sad to be going out without our good friend John Levy, whose sudden passing earlier in the week came as a shock to us all. Quint produced a dram and cups for us to raise a glass to John’s memory, before we went out. Goodbye John, we…
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The weather at the weekend was looking like we were going to miss our chance by going on the Sunday, rather thatn the Saturday – a distinct drop in temperature was set to accompany a fresh south-easterly breeze (my least favourite direction at Coldingham). The one thing in our favour was to be good cloud…
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I was looking forward to a day on the dries in the lead-up, with the weather nicely settled. However, it was seemingly too settled, with not a cloud to be seen the whole day. The calm start gave way to a light-mod breeze that had an edge to it to remind you the season was…
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What a grand day Eric Singer and I had on the Lake! It was a nice warm sunny day, a slight wind from the south-west and a water temperature of 16°C. Both Eric and I thought a good day for dries, so on went a size 12 yellow owl on the point, a cormorant on…
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The sun was shining when we arrived at Menteith and the water had a nice ripple, a light wind blowing from west-northwest and cloud cover was coming in. Water temperature was 16°C, one degree above the air temperature, not so good but the air quickly went to 17°C – things looked as though we would…
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What has happened this year? The weather has not been the best for the fishing. At Frandy, which is normally a grand place for top of the water fishing, we were presented everything that you could think of for a difficult day. We arrived to be greeted by a bright blue sky, high water spilling…
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I think we put this down as a near miss, conditions-wise. It was a very bright start, but also very pleasant, with light and variable wind, and shirt-sleeve warmth. After a while, cloud developed and it was looking good. However, shortly afterwards a cold sea breeze came in off the North Sea, the temperature plummeted,…
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