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…
Well, we were finally greeted by some welcome rain on our journey through to the Lake. There was a fair amount of surface water on the road and we were met by a fairly heavy downpour on our arrival. Although there was already a decent south westerly blowing into hotel bay, the forecast for the…
It was another stunning drive across the Lammermuir Hills to the Watch reservoir and as per our last outing there was lots of encouraging wildlife to be seen en-route. Alas, the weather conditions were going to be challenging for our day, with more bright sunshine and a blustery south easterly wind that was forecast to…
Keith Logan reports… I was pretty apprehensive about prospects for our day’s fishing. Skies were clear and temperature was picking up already. Reports from earlier in the week were very mixed but it seems that a few people had been picking up fish but on very different tactics. Pick from small dries, buzzers, right down…
Keith Logan writes… I was fishing with John McGonagle. We joined the armada and headed up towards the Malling Shore, first thing. There were already a couple of boats working the area, drifting out from close to shore, in line towards Dog Isle. The conditions felt really good, but once again there was little sign…
It was an unexpected and fairly ominous start to the day, setting off from East Lothian: torrential rain! The good news was that the further north we travelled, the better the weather, although it was clear by the amount of water on the roads that there must have been heavy showers right across the east…
It was a biting start to our Frandy session: a brisk north-westerly, accompanied by the wintery sun – never the best combination! It felt like it could be a long, tough, cold day’s fishing. There was a certain reluctance to leave the warmth of the fishing hut: the log stove was in full swing and…
There is little doubt that we have been spoiled by the milder than average spring weather for the last couple of outings. Rather than picnics in front of the palace at Linlithgow, or open water swimmers and paddle boarders on Menteith, conditions at Glencorse had a much more familiar early season feel about them. What…