Wet and windy. A day to test the water-proofing of your water-proofs, this one. Not ideal conditions for dry fly, but history suggested it was a good bet, Douglas suggested it was a good bet and, with weed but a few inches below the surface over much of the water, it was a good bet.…
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This was another new venture for the club as it was our first attempt at the unusual Sunday session on The Lake, which is from 12 noon until 7.00 p.m. On our regular Saturday session we sometimes have to leave the water just as the rise is starting, and it was hoped that we might…
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This was a good fishing day with temperature in the low 20’s and a warm south-westerly breeze. Cloud cover was pretty good over the day, although one heavy downpour was most unwelcome. The stand out boat was that of Tommy Steven and Bob Allan, who between them accounted for 21 fish. They found co-operative residential…
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A very hot sunny day did not make things easy for this outing, with temperatures reaching the mid twenties and the surface being flat calm for much of the day. However, where there is a will there is a way, and Tommy Steven found that a yellow booby on a DI-5 with a varied retrieve…
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This outing was looked forward to following a successful visit in June, however our anglers found it very hard going on what proved to be a difficult day. Only Trevor Gibson and his guest Dave Bertram cracked it. They stuck close to the Dam Wall and ended up with 18 fish between them. Trevor had…
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This turned out to be another relatively small outing of 9 anglers, which considering the venue’s proximity to Edinburgh seemed rather surprising. It was a mild evening with a light north wind, but the water was quite warm and very low. A bright sky for most of the evening didn’t help matters for top of…
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An unremittingly dreich evening — a stiff easterly breeze and misty drizzle. The water was very murky by usual Linlithgow standards. Talk was of having to anchor in the deeper area and fish Hi-Ds. Not what you want to hear when you go along hoping for some summer evening sport with dry fly! Not much…
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This was our first attempt at an evening session on Coldingham and it didn’t attract a big turn-out, with only 9 anglers taking part. Being next to the longest day however, we were assured of having a “guid kick at the ba” as far as light was concerned. Unfortunately, for some of the time we…
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Frandy is a water where I either catch them on dries or struggle to catch them. Fortunately, conditions were good for fishing dries – calm in the morning and a light westerly in the afternoon, with broken cloud cover – and an odd rumble of thunder in the distance. I fished with Gary Wright, and…
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On this Sunday the secretary was enjoying the wall to wall sunshine and flat calm conditions of Gifford Golf Course, not too sorry to be missing what he assumed would be a very difficult outing at Glencorse. However he couldn’t have been more wrong, as the club had a very good outing indeed, proving that…
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