This was another outing to highlight that the Berwickshire coastline has its own special micro-climate. The country has been basking in some glorious summer weather of late, although not great for us fishermen. The drive down the coast was terrific as usual and we were welcomed by overcast conditions and a pretty cool easterly wind. …
This was our club’s first visit to Harelaw. The fishery is moderately large reservoir of around 120 acres on the South West side of Glasgow, just to the south of Neilston, near Paisley. Ross and his team deserve real credit for establishing an extremely well run fishery that has a reputation for top of the…
Another cracking day for our outing to Frandy. It was a bright start, but with an unusual gentle east-north-east wind, which persisted throughout the day. Generally, the drifts tend to be along the south shore towards the dam. Today would be dominated by drifts from east to west, along the south shore where most of…
End of March on Glencorse was always likely to be a lottery weather-wise, but to be fair the same could be said for any our outings at any time of the year in Scotland. However, it was a decent start to the day, the fog never really disappeared and although the wind chill was obvious…
Start of another new fishing season with our usual first club outing of the year to Linlithgow. The fishing and weather in March can be a lottery at the best of times and for the past week there had been heavy rain. However, it was remarkably mild with temperatures around 8°C and the loch was…
Dougie Skedd reports… Rescheduled outing from earlier in the year. Only five of us could make the new date but we were game to give it a go. Conditions could have been better, but could have been a lot worse. The clouds were racing by overhead but down on the water it was quite fishable. …
This was another one of our outings that had to be rearranged due to bad weather earlier in the year – this season seems to have been punctuated by a few more windier days than usual. Unfortunately, this date did not suit a lot of our club and only 4 hardy anglers made it for…
It was a cracking morning up in the Pentlands for our outing, although the reservoir is still showing a lot more land than usual – but was still looking impressive. It’s really difficult to tell which way the wind blows here since the reservoir is L shaped and the hills play a big part in…
The week in the run up to our outing on the Watch was memorable for some torrential downpours. They were much needed for the local rivers and lochs. The road up through the Lammermuirs was a bit worse for wear and clearly suffering from the impacts of the heavy rainfall. We were hoping that the…
A superb autumnal morning on the Lake: a very comfortable 15°C at 8.00 a.m. and the promise of at least a bit of occasional cloud cover. There was a hint of wind, but to be honest not that much to have any sort of drift. However, the forecast was for an easterly breeze to pick…