It is a long drive to Butterstone, but our early outing there had been a real cracker and there was a real feeling of anticipation on the way up. An absolutely flat calm was not what most of us were looking for on arrival. However, the fact that fish were popping there noses up all…
Frandy has tended to be a pretty solid venue for the club, with good top of the water fishing, however this outing was to be much more trying than usual. On arrival, the conditions looked excellent as, despite a smirr of rain there was a lovely little ripple, good cloud cover and a pleasant temperature.…
An evening visit with Stan H.
An afternoon/evening with Jimmy and an evening with John.
Another one of those days (there have been so many over the years) when, looking out the window at work during the day, it looked all set to be a great evening… warm, calm, overcast… might even get a Caenis hatch (I would genuinely like to see one – it must be at least 5…
Taken from the hill above the RSPB Vane Farm Lodge.
Like Frandy a couple of weeks back, this was a session that looked to be an absolute cracker for getting some quality action to dry fly, but which largely failed to deliver the goods. The water clarity was finally nice and clear, and the word was that buzzers were working well. Stewart Barnes and I…
I was looking forward to this outing, having been out fishing mid-week and had to cut the evening short, it being a school night and all. It had been shaping up to a perfect, still, warm balmy night, and the fish were popping all over the water as we drove away. Never mind, I thought,…
The day was potentially a superb one for a water that has become established as a top dry fly venue. It was calm and overcast – rain in the mix, but never too much of a spoiler. It was cool, coming off the recent cold spell, and took until the last hour or so to…
This was another fairly hard day for most anglers at the Pentlands Reservoir. Apart from temperature, which was decidedly cool for the time of year, the conditions were pretty good. The water clarity was excellent, there was good cloud cover and the wind, although somewhat variable in direction, was of reasonable strength. Most of the…