March 29th 2014 – Lake of Menteith

When we arrived at the Lake, it was windy and cold, but, hope springs eternal and it still looked, to an optimist,  promising.  After about an hour on the water, we were drifting in a very cold and blustery east wind. The air temperature and the water temperature were both seven degrees C – but…

March 15th 2014 – Linlithgow Loch

For our first outing of the season, we had much better weather than we did in 2013. I am sure that everyone who had put down for this outing would be remembering the day we had at Glencorse last year: the numbing cold, the white-out, the stopping at lunch-time and the hardy angler who stuck…

Grey Mullet

Grey Mullet in the marina at Mazarron, Spain… below the ‘No Fishing’ signs!  They were swimming back and forth, just under the surface, and hoovering up any bits of bread thrown to them by the tourists.  There were 2 distinct size classes.  The larger was very tempting.