When Alasdair McKechnie and I were driving up to Butterstone, we were looking forward to a good days fishing. The weather was perhaps a bit bright but some cloud cover was promised. At the water’s edge, it was still promising – even though no fish were showing. Happiness when fishing is a matter of expectation:…
Trying to photograph Stan for T&S magazine in unremittnigly dreich weather.
Very few photos, thanks to everything, including the camera, getting soaked in a biblical downpour on the first day on Eye. Everything survived – just!
My first outing back fishing with the club since falling off a ladder, watering plants a few weeks ago. I landed on my casting arm – not the best of landings! I reckoned I could manage a day on dry fly, and Frandy was as good a place to put that to the test as…
I am having no pleasure putting this report on paper; well would you if you had blanked. It was an overcast kind of day with a gentle breeze at 17oC, the water was also 17oC – the wind (I am calling it a wind now) was from ENE so I will use that as my…
If you could choose weather conditions for a day on the Lake, then you would be pretty happy with Sunday 14th June. The temperature remained in the mid teens, there was good cloud cover throughout the day and a pretty steady light Westerly. The only downside was a rather murky water quality, probably resulting from…
Our first evening outing of the year – flaming June –it felt more like the end of October – We were exposed to a very blustery and cold east wind that blew the rain through the best of waterproofs. The word from our scout (Trevor had been on the water from eleven o’clock in the…
I am disappointed that Colin is away up to Orkney (am sure he will have had a great time and I hope he has some photographs to show us when he comes back) if he had not gone to Orkney he would have been at this Coldingham outing and he would be writing this report.…
We seem to be marking out 2012 in chapters of weather. We had the tropical spell in March, the cold spell in April and into May – fishing in 5 degrees!… and all of a sudden we were into the 20s! The forecast I saw promised us cloud bubbling up later in the day. Well,…
