Unfortunately, conditions were somewhat disappointing for our first visit of the season to Glencorse. It was a very bright day and although the air temperature was good, the water was suffering murkiness and low temperature, following the recent snow melt. Despite a few buzzers hatching at various points in the day, and some beetles on…
We’ve been making a habit of getting good weather for our first Menteith outing of the season, and we were jammy again. Early rain gave way to a mixed ceiling and if anything it was a little too calm. The buzzers were hatching in biblical proportions for the first couple of hours – and word…
Last September’s outing to Linlithgow was completely ruined by a pea soup like explosion of algae, therefore it was with some trepidation that we ventured out on this one. The algae had finally died out only a few weeks ago, however the water was in reasonable condition, given the fact that it had been stirred…
Butterstone was due to open on the 13th March this year, but after weeks of cold weather was still frozen. Luckily, thanks to some higher temperatures at last, it thawed and allowed us to take part in a re-scheduled Opening Day. And what a day it was – for the second year in succession we…
Fell lucky getting an invite to opening day…
Selected shots from the shooting albums – where the shutter has opened at just the right time to capture lead shot, or wadding, or flash in mid-air. I was surprised how easy it is to catch the lead – 1/350 s to 1/500 s is all that is required – plus the luck of the timing. The lead is maybe in the air for 1/3 s, and the camera shoots at about 5 frames per second, so it has a reasonable chance.
Alan Morrison on Beat 2
A good place to finish the season.
Last outing of 2009 and, given some decent weather, a last chance to hunt some late season scrot pickers with the dry fly. Dougie Skedd and I started out and meandered our way up the water, trying to drop in on the groups of risers we were seeing, going up through the crannog, and on…
The drive up to Linlithgow seemed to be in very good fishing conditions, however these early hopes were to be immediately dashed on arrival. The whole loch was like a huge bowl of very thick pea soup. Despite being told that a huge number of fish had been stocked that week we were not too…
