Selected shots from the shooting albums – where the shutter has opened at just the right time to capture lead shot, or wadding, or flash in mid-air. I was surprised how easy it is to catch the lead – 1/350 s to 1/500 s is all that is required – plus the luck of the timing. The lead is maybe in the air for 1/3 s, and the camera shoots at about 5 frames per second, so it has a reasonable chance.
Alan Morrison on Beat 2
A good place to finish the season.
Last outing of 2009 and, given some decent weather, a last chance to hunt some late season scrot pickers with the dry fly. Dougie Skedd and I started out and meandered our way up the water, trying to drop in on the groups of risers we were seeing, going up through the crannog, and on…
The drive up to Linlithgow seemed to be in very good fishing conditions, however these early hopes were to be immediately dashed on arrival. The whole loch was like a huge bowl of very thick pea soup. Despite being told that a huge number of fish had been stocked that week we were not too…
This Edinburgh Monday holiday outing started well with excellent conditions for top of the water tactics. However, no sooner had we started when the wind began to blow from the West and it was a case of finding some place to shelter, even if it wasn’t where the fish were. Ones and twos were the…
Week of 31st August saw the Lake gearing up for the National Final on 5th September, with all involved getting their practice in ahead of the event on Saturday 5th. Week of 7th September, and the Lake was playing host to the autumn international, culminating in the match on Friday 11th (well done, our lads!)…
Although things were a bit slow to start, conditions seemed pretty good for top of the water fishing, and indeed this turned out to be an excellent day for the club with Glencorse rainbows co-operating well and with even some brownies joining in the action. Some early fish fell to lures, but as the afternoon…
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.…
