Our attempts to negotiate with the weather gods for a decent day of conditions at Coldingham continue to fall on deaf ears. This one was bright and breezy from the west, not helped by the water being gin-clear and there being very little evidence of fly life. The fish seemed arsy and only put in…
I came home last weekend from a trip up north to a mayfly loch. As I was going to Glencorse, I took all my mayfly boxes out my bag – 5 of them, if you include the dapping flies. When I got there, I learned from the others that the reservoir has been enjoying a…
Outing cancelled due to high winds. John Wastle and I were fishing Craggie that day… With the dap… not easy…
Three days of cold, windy conditions, but good sport with a dapped mayfly.
We arrived to find more of the sea haar we have been suffering in the past few weeks, what with easterly becoming the prevailing wind direction these days. It was patchy, and the sun was poking through to begin with. Before the outing, Mel produced a bottle of malt and a stack of glasses and…
A big improvement in the weather of recent weeks. It was maybe a bit bright for the fishing, but it was very welcome to be out on a calm, sunny, spring-like day. Dougie Skedd and I started off on dries. We had decent early cloud cover and a sparse number of buzzers, but there was…
