Tomdoun

A three day ‘fact-finding mission’ with John Wastle in 2009.  Good sport on Loch Quoich with hard-fighting brownies.  If you’ve ever wondered where clegs come from, this is the place!

Assorted Waters

July 10th 2009 – Glencorse

2009 July

This turned out to be another relatively small outing of 9 anglers, which considering the venue’s proximity to Edinburgh seemed rather surprising.  It was a mild evening with a light north wind, but the water was quite warm and very low.  A bright sky for most of the evening didn’t help matters for top of…

June 26th 2009 – Linlithgow Loch

2009 June

An unremittingly dreich evening — a stiff easterly breeze and misty drizzle.  The water was very murky by usual Linlithgow standards.  Talk was of having to anchor in the deeper area and fish Hi-Ds.  Not what you want to hear when you go along hoping for some summer evening sport with dry fly!  Not much…

June 20th 2009 – Coldingham

2009 June

This was our first attempt at an evening session on Coldingham and it didn’t attract a big turn-out, with only 9 anglers taking part.   Being next to the longest day however, we were assured of having a “guid kick at the ba” as far as light was concerned.  Unfortunately, for some of the time we…

June 14th 2009 – Frandy

2009 June

Frandy is a water where I either catch them on dries or struggle to catch them. Fortunately, conditions were good for fishing dries – calm in the morning and a light westerly in the afternoon, with broken cloud cover – and an odd rumble of thunder in the distance. I fished with Gary Wright, and…

May 31st 2009 – Glencorse

2009 May

On this Sunday the secretary was enjoying the wall to wall sunshine and flat calm conditions of Gifford Golf Course, not too sorry to be missing what he assumed would be a very difficult outing at Glencorse. However he couldn’t have been more wrong, as the club had a very good outing indeed, proving that…

May 24th 2009 – Carron Valley

2009 May

This was a very poorly supported outing from the word go and, with further call–offs in the week beforehand, we ended up with only 4 rods. It just proves how difficult it is to get things right in booking. Having booked 6 boats for both Carron outings we were looking for an extra 3 boats…

May 18th 2009 – Lake of Menteith

2009 May

Thankfully, the problems experienced recently by the Lake management seem to have passed.  Don’t know if the exact problem was ever identified but, fingers crossed they have seen the last of it! We were not sure what to expect in they way of stockies vs residents.  Conditions were good at the start, and Quint recommended…