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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This outing used to be a full day outing, but due to lack of interest for the evening session we have gone to a 4.00 p.m. finish for 2009. The day was no more than reasonable for the time of year. We had a medium wind which varied in direction, but was mainly a North…
JSB reports… Conditions were mixed for our first visit of 2009 to Coldingham, with clear water and a temperature of 15 degrees, but only occasional cloud cover and a strongish NW wind. This meant that the fishable areas were restricted and anchoring up was the order of the day, mainly in or near Boathouse Bay.…
A bit of a near-miss, conditions-wise. Temperature was lovely and warm the day before, but dropped like a stone overnight. Wind was southerly (thought that should be a warm direction!!!) a lot of the time, which is awkward for Carron, blowing across the water and buggering up the drifts, and was swirling, changing direction, almost…