Mayfly hatch going great guns, though a sudden drop in air temperature coupled to very warm water rather knocked the fish off the top.
Our annual evening outing to Coldingham, and not the worst we’ve had, weather-wise – though given our track record, it had a variety of stiff competition to beat. The one fly in the ointment was the temperature – it was barely 10-11°C by mid-evening. That was due to a northerly breeze, though it dropped away…
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…
