A big improvement in the weather of recent weeks. It was maybe a bit bright for the fishing, but it was very welcome to be out on a calm, sunny, spring-like day. Dougie Skedd and I started off on dries. We had decent early cloud cover and a sparse number of buzzers, but there was…
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In terms of our fishing day it was another inauspicious start on the Lake. Jimmy McBride and I initially headed across to the butts area but focused more in the middle of the buzzer basin. There were a lot of boats close in at Tods, working close in to the reeds. Quite a few boats…
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Outing cancelled due to Storm Kathleen.
Well, it has been a relatively slow start to the new season for the Club. The first observation on the way to the reservoir was just how much rain has fallen over the course of the past few weeks. We were greeted by torrents of water heading down the road and from the surrounding Pentlands. …
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Was the proverbial game of two halves yesterday for Allan Everington and me. We started off in the Butts with what seemed like a glacial drift along towards Tod’s Hole. In hindsight (it’s a great thing) probably too close in to the Reeds. Most of the other boats were spread right across the Eastern…
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Outing cancelled due to water quality.
This outing was rearranged, after the original date was postponed due to storm Babet. And we were blummin’ lucky with the weather, given Storm Ciaran and all that was happening elsewhere this time! Not just that, but the forecast was for a fresh northerly with some rain, and we got ‘light and variable’ and dry…
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Outing cancelled due to weather.
Outing cancelled due to water quality.
A decided dip in the temperature since our outing to the Watch! A drop of 12-13C in under 2 weeks! However, that was tempered by a cracking ceiling all day long, and a westerly breeze that was never stronger than a decent fishing ripple. The reservoir must have been near top water, given the awkwardness…
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