This was the first time I had been to Watch Water Reservoir, and on a very misty morning Hugh Thomson and I were on the road at 05:45 hours. We met-up at Linlithgow Loch, before heading for Haddington, Gifford and then on to Longformacus, arriving at the Loch about 07:55 hours. We were not the…
A day with Jimmy, chasing buzzer feeders at the back of Arnmach, and in the shallows inside Sam’s point.
In time-honoured tradition, we continued not to be able to buy a good day’s fishing conditions for a trip to Coldingham. This one started cold, windy and brassy bright. In fairness, while the bright sunlight continued almost unbroken from start to finish, the breeze surprisingly dropped away at a gradual pace until it was almost…
Four seasons in one day at Carron, with the temperature yo-yo-ing, the wind coming and going off all points of the compass, and the sky giving everything from bright sunshine to heavy showers. The modal conditions were calmish, overcast and cool. Buzzers were hatching in sparse numbers and it was a decent-seeming shout to go…
On a nice sunny morning, the drive through to Linlithgow was pleasant, but not very promising, and when I arrived I found that Derek Kilgour had beat me to it and was busy contemplating the brassy blue sky as he huddled from the NNW wind – not a strong wind but cold. We were advised…
An early season trip with Stan to the mighty Loch Awe.
First Outing to Coldingham since the new management team of Carmel Kennedy and Gareth Taylor took over. We were made most welcome and were pleased to see that the quality of the fishing was up to the high standard that we have become used to as this most picturesque water. The one thing we struggle…
First club outing of the year for me… We were promised after a week of temperatures in the 20s (!) that it would turn distinctly cooler for the weekend. Think it was like that back east (8C when we got home), but it was a glorious spring day through at Menteith. Only when there was…
After looking at the Butterstone fishing reports I was not looking forward to it – I wanted to go fishing but did not want a repeat of last year when our rod average was over 10 – the Butterstone fishing reports advised that the rod average for the opening day was over 12. However when…
