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…
A very interesting day. The rain encountered while driving down went off, just as we arrived. It stayed off the whole day, giving a heavy overcast light for much of proceedings, together with a light, cold sea breeze. A brief spell of sun, mid-afternoon, brought a welcome burst of warmth. I was fishing with Derek…
