A day with Jimmy, looking for mayfly feeders. A few on dries and one on the dap.
This outing was scheduled for Saturday 6th, however Saturday 6th was, like many days this year, a write-off due to gales. It must take a bit to make Coldingham dangerous, but Gareth reported there were huge waves crashing on the north shore, so it’s as well we were able to reschedule for the following evening. …
We almost got a good day on Saturday the 30th May – It was dry, bright, but still with the strong, cold, blustery wind blowing from the North West. The water temperature was 9.5°C and the air was the same, never the best for fishing near the top of the water. Allan Brown and I…
I think a few of us must have been bad in our youth. Why? Because the weather was if anything worse, for fishing, than any other time this year. When we arrived at Carron, the water was spilling over the dam in waves and the water on the reservoir side of the dam was chaotic.…
Ten of us spent a week of fishing Lochs Arkaig, Shiel and Lochy for ferox with wet fly. Thankfully I caught one! Some of the fish caught by others on this trip, and other trips to these waters can be found here.
Will the weather ever get better this year? When we arrived at Glencorse, it was quite nice, the wind was gentle from the west and fish were rising in boat bay. Bob Whyte and I were blethering and decided that we were going to try dries up at the west end of the loch and…
Our uncanny knack of failing at every attempt to get a day of ideal conditions for an outing to Coldingham continued, as May heralded in single-figure temperatures, and a biting wind that was actually better when it was off the north than when it came round to the east. It was, otherwise, a day of…
There are few things as certain as death and taxes, but one is that if our club is on Carron, it will be a day of bright sun and cold easterly breeze. Yesterday was a fine example. I fished with our esteemed Secretary, and we both still think of Carron as a wild brownie water,…
It was raining heavily when I left home. That’s not too bad I thought – it is bound to change; and change it did… I had to switch the wipers on at full speed! However when I arrived it did go off for about ten minutes, just enough time to get into my waterproofs. Garry…
It was good to be visiting Coldingham Loch again. Looking at the weather forecast on Saturday night, I thought great – dry with cloud cover arriving at 1100 hours. I rushed to tie up half a dozen yellow owls: how could they fail? However, I should have remembered I was looking at the BBC weather…