Another one of those days (there have been so many over the years) when, looking out the window at work during the day, it looked all set to be a great evening… warm, calm, overcast… might even get a Caenis hatch (I would genuinely like to see one – it must be at least 5…
Taken from the hill above the RSPB Vane Farm Lodge.
Like Frandy a couple of weeks back, this was a session that looked to be an absolute cracker for getting some quality action to dry fly, but which largely failed to deliver the goods. The water clarity was finally nice and clear, and the word was that buzzers were working well. Stewart Barnes and I…
I was looking forward to this outing, having been out fishing mid-week and had to cut the evening short, it being a school night and all. It had been shaping up to a perfect, still, warm balmy night, and the fish were popping all over the water as we drove away. Never mind, I thought,…
The day was potentially a superb one for a water that has become established as a top dry fly venue. It was calm and overcast – rain in the mix, but never too much of a spoiler. It was cool, coming off the recent cold spell, and took until the last hour or so to…
This was another fairly hard day for most anglers at the Pentlands Reservoir. Apart from temperature, which was decidedly cool for the time of year, the conditions were pretty good. The water clarity was excellent, there was good cloud cover and the wind, although somewhat variable in direction, was of reasonable strength. Most of the…
Warming up at last. It was shirt sleeves in the morning sun, but when the breeze got up and the cloud came over, we were reaching for the layers. I fished with Bob Allan and we had a very good day. We had no preconceptions – having forgotten to look at the Lake website as…
Two days on each water – a good mix of styles.
One of those days when the conditions were not great, but they were not bad, either. Temperatures, which had finally been climbing, took a nose dive and we were back to single figures. The cold breeze was off the north east – not a good direction when perched on a cliff top on a NE-facing…
What with our secretary enjoying an extended holiday in Turkey, courtesy of the volcanic ash fiasco, and other associated complications, we were a couple of rods short on the day. Every weather forecast there was promised us a mild southerly wind instead of the usual cold easterly we always get for our Carron outing. Needless…