This was the 2nd week of the season for Glencorse fishery. It seems like the weather gods are against us for most of our outings to Glencorse, and today seemed no different! The trouble with weather forecasts is that they’re right too often for us to ignore them and wrong too often for us to…
It was a quiet opening day outing for the club this season, with only 3 boats booked following a few last minute call-offs. Our last few sessions on Linlithgow have proven to be extremely challenging, not helped by the quality of the water, which resulted in poor catch returns. Last season this outing was cancelled…
The weather was pleasantly unseasonal for our first outing in July. The weather on departure from Gifford was more spring-like at 10.5°C, which slowly approached around 12°C by the time we arrived at the Lake. It was a quieter than usual outing for the club, due to various holidays and fishing trips to Orkney so…
There was little sign of cloud cover and the sun was also breaking through as we headed towards the Watch reservoir. I think the drive over the Lammermuirs from Gifford to Longformacus is hard to beat in term of the scenery. Saturday morning was stunning. A word of caution, mind you, rather than spending time…
It was a solid mid-week turnout for the Club, with 8 boats out for the day. We were also joined by a guest angler, David Hannaford, who fished with our new club secretary, Mel Mitchell. Congratulations to David on your first outing with the Club and great fishing to end with 7 fish. We hope…
Frandy, they reckon, sits about 1000 ft up into the Ochil Hills, but there had been a pleasant improvement in the weather and temperatures in the lead-up to our outing. The wind can be a bit inconsistent and complicated, given the surrounding hills, and the drifts can vary according to where you set up the…
I was delighted to be fishing with John Miller, one of the club’s elder statesmen and still enthusiastically joining in on our outings. Darrel had been speaking to a couple of his fishing chums during the week and reports were that Glencorse has been ”fishing its nuts off”, which is generally the kiss of death…
In terms of our fishing day it was another inauspicious start on the Lake. Jimmy McBride and I initially headed across to the butts area but focused more in the middle of the buzzer basin. There were a lot of boats close in at Tods, working close in to the reeds. Quite a few boats…
Well, it has been a relatively slow start to the new season for the Club. The first observation on the way to the reservoir was just how much rain has fallen over the course of the past few weeks. We were greeted by torrents of water heading down the road and from the surrounding Pentlands. …
Was the proverbial game of two halves yesterday for Allan Everington and me. We started off in the Butts with what seemed like a glacial drift along towards Tod’s Hole. In hindsight (it’s a great thing) probably too close in to the Reeds. Most of the other boats were spread right across the Eastern…