Cracking conditions for it – though the light easterly breeze was naturally a touch on the cool side. However, good cloud cover until the last hour and a lengthways direction of breeze allowed for some good drifts. We hoped that the conditions would give us some good surface activity, but there was an almost total…
A day out with Steve Greig, over from California for a visit. The mayfly have started – we managed to tune-in on some mayfly feeders behind Inch Talla – though the one we spooned had more shucks than anything – no duns in him, and just a single nymph. Meanwhile, the open water buzzer-feeders are…
Photos from our stop-over days on Eye, en route to Orkney.
Good weather at last! It was a cracking day to be out. Perhaps not what fishers of traditional wets would have been looking for, but ideal for nymphing or dry fly tactics. The wind was the only fly in the ointment. It was typical ‘light and variable’, which means that what little air there is…
A really interesting day this one, in many ways. Given the weather we’ve been getting, we’d have taken it, even though it was single figure temperatures and bright sun for much of the day. The saving grace was that the wind was light and for the first half of the day it was from the…
Not the warmest of starts to the day: 2.5°C. Back to the long-Johns and winter woollies. The wind was WSW and due to get up later in the day, but was OK in the morning. The cold rather spoiled things, as there was decent cloud cover and decent numbers of buzzers hatching, but just not…
