A visit following heavy rain and the river dropping to below 0.5 m on the Newtonbridge gauge, though that turned out to be still a tad high at Buchanty. Very little until mid-day, after which there was a reasonable amount of activity. A lot of the fish were small. The river was an ideal height…
A day of nice light winds, giving us hope of some late season dry fly action, if the fish and fly life were up for it. We had good cloud cover as well, although that turned to rain as the day went on. It was also a lot cooler than the wee Indian summer spell…
An Indian summer day with Jimmy. Tricky conditions. Fish feeding on parachuting spiders and beetles.
A much argued topic is that of, “Is it a sea trout or a brown trout?” The first problem is that they are all the same fish: Salmo trutta. Stock a river in Patagonia with brown trout and come back 10 years later and you will find sea trout. Strip a hen sea trout and…
This outing was cancelled by the Fishery, early on Saturday morning, due to the forecast of high winds for the day.
A week of very unsettled weather, with wet days, sunny days, windy days, calm days, hot days, cold days, a day when we had to get off quick half way through… everything under the sun. Not unexpectedly, the fishing was a mix of good, bad and indifferent. Forty five fish for the week – about…
This was the Sunday session: mid-day till 7:00 p.m., and the second of a double-header of 2 outings to the Lake in 8 days. The one last Saturday saw a welcome end to the hot weather period with the fish coming out the deeps to play again. The first semi-final of the Scottish Clubs’ comp…
A small outing to start with – only 7 of us – and smaller by the end – only 3 of us survived, thanks to the weather! In the middle of a very long, warm, wet spell, it was a dry, cool start, but the forecast rain for later arrived early afternoon, and we got…
Three days with Jimmy, trying for salmon and sea trout. One salmon hooked and lost. Another salmon raised and not hooked, a few half chances of sea trout… and nothing landed bigger than a 10 oz brownie. Water at 19 C, may have been a factor. Thundery weather may have been a factor. Being bad…
