I would have thought that with it being a Monday and a bank holiday, the roads would have been quite quiet, but no, the bypass was worse than any Friday at six. However, the weather was just fine. When we got to the venue, it was sunny with a gentle southeast wind giving a nice…
An excellent day with Roger Dowsett and Stan Headley, doing a piece for T&S mag.
Rob’s birthday bash
It was a cold evening at Linlithgow and one of those swirly winds that swung the anchored boats accompanied the cold. The water temperature was 14oC but the air was 9oC at best – Not good conditions for getting fish to rise. Robert Wallace and I were fishing together – Robert with an intermediate line…
A better than average day, conditions-wise, given our abysmal track-record for trips to Coldingham. It was 100% ceiling, and the breeze (southy-easty-ish) was never stronger than moderate. Just one problem – the temperature. It was Baltic! However, there were signs of fish rising and Stewart Barnes and I set out with dries on. Stewart was…
An April trip to fish Lochy with Stan and Mark Hirst. Good sport with plenty of wild brownies in the half to one pound class.
Ochone ochone – another cancellation. This time the fishery had made an administrative error, I was very tempted to use unparliamentary language – but it would not have helped. The fishery staff could not have been more apologetic and I know that the apology was genuine. Even though we had made the bookings before any…
All of our twenty two members turned up for our outing to Glencorse, we expected the tide to be out, and it was, but this coupled with a HOOLEY – a cold west blustery wind blowing at 25 MPH and the weather forecast advised it would get stronger about lunch time. The bailiff advised that…
My first trout fishing trip in 6 months! I had to remind myself what to do. There were all the usual extra checks to make sure I hadn’t forgotten anything vital. In the past I have turned up on the first outing with no wellies (it was pissing down and I had to spend the…
